The limits of Andy Burnham
Manchesterism is sounding a lot like Londonism
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David Edgerton
David Edgerton is professor of modern British history at King’s College London and the author of books including The Rise and Fall of the British Nation and Britain’s War Machine.
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Don’t be seduced by the myths of the economic right
The authors of an influential new pamphlet are regurgitating bad history.
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Harold Wilson’s lessons for Labour
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Labour must not be trapped by the politics of national decline or revival
Rather than a politics of imaginary growth rates, we need one of real redistribution to those whose incomes are…
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British diplomacy in the dock
A former diplomat’s new book reveals that, for 25 years, UK foreign policy has left mainly harm and disorder…
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Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline
The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.
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The new age of autarky
How crises and upheavals are drawing Britain away from globalisation and back towards a national capitalism.
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How the myth of “Britain alone” overshadows VE Day
The UK has long downplayed the awkward truth that its victory in the Second World War largely depended on the…
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Why the coronavirus crisis should not be compared to the Second World War
Military analogies are fuelling myths and fantasies about the UK’s wartime experience.
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