Anthony Giddens
Articles by Anthony Giddens
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UK Politics
The rise and fall of New Labour
- 17 May 2010
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The architect of the Third Way argues that although the Blair-Brown years may not have been the new dawn promised in 1997, Labour’s achievements were still considerable.
Environment
Start the world, we want to get on
- 08 February 2010
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The Copenhagen debacle gave little grounds for hope of concerted action against climate change, but Anthony Giddens sees a chance for a new beginning
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
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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
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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?
