David Marquand
Articles by David Marquand
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Ideas
NS Essay - The public domain is a gift of history. Now it is at risk
- 19 January 2004
Ideals of service, equity and civic duty that once counted even in private firms are all but gone. Money rules and the patronage of "old corruption" is back
Politics
The end of the affair
- 24 November 2003
The special relationship is outdated. Blair deserves the axe for his Iraq follies, but can escape it if he now breaks with the US and opts for Europe. By David Marquand
Politics
NS Essay - 'The main Continental European powers will no longer jump to attention and salute when Washington blows the trumpet'
- 26 May 2003
The world cannot tolerate a lawless hegemon. It needs an alternative pole of power. But thanks to Tony Blair, it will not be the EU
Politics
The tragedy of Tony Blair
- 10 March 2003
This PM was the first in 23 years who wanted to put Britain at the heart of Europe. By joining those who toady to Bush, he has betrayed his own project
Politics
Back to the future. New Labour is not as new as it thinks. The Third Way is just the kind of guff that Ramsay MacDonald would have espoused. By David Marquand
- 20 January 2003
George Lansbury: at the heart of old Labour John Shepherd Oxford University Press, 428pp, £35 ISBN 0198201648 Labour Forces: from Ernest Bevin to Gordon Brown Edited by Kevin Jefferys I B Tauris, 258pp, £25 MacDonald's Party: Labour identities and crisis (1922-1931) David Howell Oxford University Press, 452pp, £55
Ideas
NS Essay - The playground bully
- 21 October 2002
US missiles are the policemen of a global market, just as the Royal Navy was in the 19th century. Can US hegemony last longer than Britain's? By David Marquand
Books
Age of the superstate
- 25 June 2001
Britain and Europe: the choices we face Edited by Martin Rosenbaum Oxford University Press, 308pp, £8.99 ISBN 0192802283
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Can Blair kill off Britain's Tory state at last?
- 14 May 2001
Election 2001 - He may not be a socialist, but no Labour leader has ever been more anti-Conservative. And that is the key to his second term, argues David Marquand
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The fall of civic culture
- 13 November 2000
The new right's Kulturkampf has destroyed the values of the public domain. But does Tony Blair understand the need to restore them?
Books
United they stand
- 09 October 2000
Servants of the People: the inside story on new Labour Andrew Rawnsley Hamish Hamilton, 448pp, £17.99 ISBN 0241140293
