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Can Blair survive?

  • 24 February 2003

British PMs are hard to get rid of except at elections, and Labour leaders are almost safe for life. It's when the bombs fall that everything starts to change

No mountain high enough. Ben Pimlott acclaims a monumental biography of Keynes, who struggled against an incurable heart condition to become the architect of the postwar consensus

  • 25 December 2000

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-1946
Robert Skidelsky Macmillan, 580pp, £25
ISBN 0333604563

The New Statesman Essay - Mr Blair and Mr Blair

  • 23 October 2000

Ben Pimlott on what the PM doesn't have in common with George Orwell

The New Statesman Essay - To uplift the souls of the people

  • 08 November 1999

Blair's call for moral purpose echoes a very old Labour theme

Paradoxes and circles. Can new Labour succeed where Churchill failed and solve one of the great intractable problems of British politics?

  • 17 May 1999

Unfinished Business: Reforming the House of Lords
Ivor Richard and Damien Welfare Vintage, 226pp, £6.99

The idea of a European superstate was born in Britain, but we've remained stubbornly on the margins ever since

  • 18 December 1998

This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair
Hugo Young Macmillan, 558pp, £20

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