Ben Pimlott
Articles by Ben Pimlott
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Politics
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
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 ISBN 0333604563
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, 226pp, £6.99
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
