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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UK Politics
The death of ideas
- 06 August 2009
- 4 comments
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.
North America
After the revolution
- 16 June 2009
- 20 comments
30 years on from the Islamic revolution, can sensible, sober diplomacy win out?
UK Politics
The Fraud Squad
- 14 May 2009
Meet the light-fingered home secretary, the Railway King who robbed his own company . . . plus six other hopelessly crooked “Honourable Members"
Sport
The showman and the reluctant revolutionary
- 26 March 2009
- 1 comment
The rivalry between Brian Clough and Don Revie, two of the most successful English football managers of the 1970s, tells us all we need to know about Britain’s postwar decline
Ideas
Au revoir, never goodbye
- 26 February 2009
The values Thatcherism embodied will never go away, argues Dominic Sandbrook, precisely because they are part of mainstream Tory tradition
North America
The man of words
- 11 December 2008
- 17 comments
Barack Obama is certain to be remembered as one of the great political speakers of our time. But the true test of his rhetorical talents will be how he adjusts to the challenges of being in power
North America
No new New Deal
- 23 October 2008
- 1 comment
If Barack Obama wins the presidency, comparisons will be made with FDR, another charismatic Democrat to take office during an economic crisis. The fear is that the true parallel may be with Jimmy Carter
Ideas
Crisis, what crisis?
- 02 October 2008
- 3 comments
It is nearly 30 years since Jim Callaghan spoke of a sea change in British politics. We are at a similar moment of transition. The question is, has Labour learned a lesson?
Books
Abuse of power
- 18 April 2005
Historians in Trouble: plagiarism, fraud and politics in the ivory tower Jon Wiener New Press, 272pp, £16.99 ISBN 1565848845
