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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.

Books
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

Ideas
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

"We're going to have to get you out today," said the consultant. "Otherwise, we'll need bunk beds."
24 January 2000
Ideas
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

Books
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, 226

We ought to acknowledge that Hitler - abused, lonely, romantic - was a rather appealing character
08 January 1999
Books
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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