Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook is a historian and author. His books include Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles and White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties. He writes the What If... column for the New Statesman.
Articles by Dominic Sandbrook
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Society
Trial by fury
- 29 October 2009
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We live in an age when everyone is encouraged to have their say on Twitter or blogs. But, in our anger over MPs’ expenses or Nick Griffin, we are nearer to the baying, blood-hungry mob of ancient Rome or 18th-century Tyburn than we would like to admit
UK Politics
The death of ideas
- 06 August 2009
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We are at a political watershed, and are hungry for initiatives that will remake our world. But not since the 18th century, Dominic Sandbrook argues, has Britain’s intellectual cupboard been so bare
Life & Society
One’s bit on the side
- 09 July 2009
The story of the royal family since Victoria is one of madness, badness and dissolution.
