David Marquand
Articles by David Marquand
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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
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Little by little, the ''social'' element in social democracy has drowned out the ''democratic'' element. Freedom, tolerance, human rights, civil liberty and the rule of law slowly fell off the radar screen. It is time to redress the balance'
- 16 January 2006
Twenty-five years after the SDP was born, it is fashionable to say that Blair and new Labour are the party's true heirs. Nonsense, writes David Marquand, who was once a leading SDP figure. They have betrayed that heritage
UK Politics
Broken promises. By delivering a softer, more socially inclusive version of Thatcherism to Middle England, Tony Blair earned the adulation of his party. Where did it all go wrong, wonders David Marquand
- 26 September 2005
The Unfulfilled Prime Minister: Tony Blair and the end of optimism Peter Riddell Politico's, 226pp, £15.99 ISBN 1842751131
Books
As good as it gets? Democracy once stood for self-government by a society of equals. Today, the concept is yoked to capitalism, and most representative democracies are inescapably inegalitarian. David Marquand on the subversion of a noble ideal
- 27 June 2005
Democracy and Populism: fear and hatred John Lukacs Yale University Press, 272pp, £16 ISBN 0300107730 Setting the People Free: the story of democracy John Dunn Atlantic Books, 246pp, £16.99
UK Politics
A direct line to the Almighty. Contempt for due process runs through the Blair governments like a livid wound. This, says new Labour, is of concern to Hampstead liberals, not to "our people". But democracy is threatened and only a British orange revolution will do
- 02 May 2005
British Government in Crisis Christopher Foster Hart Publishing, 334pp, £19.95 ISBN 1841135496
