David Marquand
Articles by david marquand
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Books
Unfit for purpose
- 29 May 2008
The health of our leaders is important to them - but even more so to us. But, as a new study shows, at critical times our politicians' ability to take decisions has been seriously compromised - and then covered up.
Books
How did we get here?
- 10 April 2008
- 2 comments
After ten years of new Labour in power, the academics and commentators have been taking stock. David Marquand argues that it is the unintended and still unpredictable consequences of its constitutional changes that will be seen as its most damaging legacy
UK Politics
Lib-Lab rides again
- 21 February 2008
Labour talks of "fusing" social democracy with liberalism but today's progressives need to discover the two traditions always had strong common roots
Books
Accidental hero
- 06 December 2007
- 11 comments
For 150 years, John Stuart Mill has been the intellectual icon of the British left - but his ideas address few of the problems we face today.
UK Politics
The creator
- 20 September 2007
- 3 comments
At the heart of Gordon Brown's popularity is the fact he is not Tony Blair. Here David Marquand suggests the new PM is stealthily re-creating new Labour in his own image
Books
The pitfalls of pride
- 30 August 2007
- 1 comment
David Marquand asks whether hubris is an occupational hazard for modern politicians. Should we be quicker to diagnose a condition with such disastrous consequences?
Politics
Britain's own C-word
- 28 June 2007
- 7 comments
The big question in coming months is how far the new leader will transform the machinery of state. David Marquand argues we need a new constitutional settlement.
UK Politics
A man without history
- 07 May 2007
- 4 comments
The Third Way was not an ideology, but a classy fudge that the Prime Minister soon abandoned for Messianic belligerence
Books
The man with two lives
- 02 April 2007
Michael Foot's political achievements may fade - but his writing will endure. David Marquand on the extraordinary career of the heir to Swift and Orwell
Michael Foot: a life
Kenneth O Morgan HarperPress, 568pp, £25
ISBN 0007178263
Politics
Brave new dawn
- 24 April 2006
Tony Blair's ignorance of history, while appallingly dangerous, is also one of his chief assets, allowing him to construct whatever narrative is useful to him. David Marquand on a truly postmodern prime minister
The Politics of Good Intentions: history, fear and hypocrisy in the new world order
David Runciman Princeton University Press, 211pp, £18.95
ISBN 069112566X
