Anthony Giddens
Articles by Anthony Giddens
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Politics
Why the rich should now be made to pay
- 02 April 2007
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The architect of Tony Blair's 'third way' outlines 16 steps to a fairer Britain
Politics
Europe: teaching us a lesson
- 25 September 2006
As the candidates pledge to use Labour's leadership battles to debate new ideas, where should they look beyond these shores? Anthony Giddens assesses the best on offer in Europe
Politics
The colonel and his third way
- 28 August 2006
Muammar al-Gaddafi has rejected terrorism and brought Libya back into the international fold. Now he is returning to his early radical ideas, which he thinks have common ground with some of new Labour's
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Accumulation of wealth is unjust where it arises not from hard work and risk-taking enterprise, but from ''brute luck'' factors such as returns from property. Inheritance is a form of brute-luck inequality'
- 27 June 2005
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The gap between rich and poor is far too wide and there are things the government can do about it without slipping back into the "old egalitarianism" it so despises. An exclusive extract from a new book by Patrick Diamond and Anthony Giddens
Society
NS Essay - Scaring people may be the only way to avoid the risks of new-style terrorism
- 10 January 2005
Claims that our leaders are playing the "politics of fear" are misconceived. Society could easily weather attacks from the likes of the IRA; just one from al-Qaeda could be devastating
Ideas
NS Essay - The left must open up more clear water between itself and its opponents
- 01 November 2004
Why are social-democrat parties in such trouble in so many European countries? Have they been too quick to break with their traditional policies, or too slow?
Ideas
NS Essay - 'We can and should take action if the earnings of the rich set them apart from society'
- 27 September 2004
NS Labour conference 2004 - Anthony Giddens argues that new Labour needs to embrace a new egalitarianism if it is to take further its commitment to social justice. Unlike the old notion of equality, it would reject totemic gestures such as raising income tax rates
Ideas
NS Essay - There is a law of the Labour back benches: if they do it in Sweden, it must be all right.
- 06 September 2004
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So what is the truth about the Scandinavians, so often held up as model social democrats? Anthony Giddens hails the Swedes, Danes and Finns as true followers of the Third Way.
