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Power to the people

David Marquand — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:29:42 GMT

John Stuart Mill�s classic treatise On Liberty, published 150 years ago, has much to teach an intellectually exhausted left.

The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession

David Marquand — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:12:09 GMT

Periodic deep crisis is fundamental to capitalism. And until we recognise that creative destruction is the terrifying essence ofthe system, we are doomed to repeat needless errors.

The twilight zone

David Marquand — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:45:44 GMT

A new study of Britain in the 1970s argues that there was more to the decade than a slow slide towards Thatcherism. But not very much more, feels David Marquand

The warrior woman

David Marquand — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:23:52 GMT

Three decades on, David Marquand examines the social and economic consequences of the Thatcher revolution

The scapegoat

David Marquand — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:23:36 GMT

The party could have been in no doubt about what it was getting when Gordon Brown was elected unopposed. But for all the backbiting no one is offering an intellectually inspiring new political idea

Unfit for purpose

David Marquand — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The health of our leaders is important to them - but even more so to us. But, as a new study shows, at critical times our politicians' ability to take decisions has been seriously compromised - and then covered up.

How did we get here?

David Marquand — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

After ten years of new Labour in power, the academics and commentators have been taking stock. David Marquand argues that it is the unintended and still unpredictable consequences of its constitutional changes that will be seen as its most damaging legacy

Lib-Lab rides again

David Marquand — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Labour talks of "fusing" social democracy with liberalism but today's progressives need to discover the two traditions always had strong common roots

Accidental hero

David Marquand — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT

For 150 years, John Stuart Mill has been the intellectual icon of the British left - but his ideas address few of the problems we face today.

The creator

David Marquand — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT

At the heart of Gordon Brown's popularity is the fact he is not Tony Blair. Here David Marquand suggests the new PM is stealthily re-creating new Labour in his own image