Long reads The people is sublime: the long history of populism, from Robespierre to Trump If liberal democracy is to survive, the tide of populism will have to be turned back. The question is: how? By David Marquand
Doctor to the body politic The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke David Bromwich Harvard University Press, 512pp, £25 Eighteenth-century Britain was rich in outsize… By David Marquand
How liberalism lost its way What happened to a defining world-view? David Marquand examines the religious roots of an ideology. By David Marquand
The broken legacy of Roy Jenkins He was the most successful chancellor since the 1940s and the most radical home secretary since WW1, responsible for… By David Marquand
First Brexit, then break-up The possibility of Britain’s exit from the EU raises important questions about our competing national identities – and the… By David Marquand
The charisma question: Disraeli and Gladstone reappraised Dick Leonard's double biography of Disraeli and Gladstone has come at the perfect time: they cast light on our… By David Marquand
The scapegoat The party could have been in no doubt about what it was getting when Gordon Brown was elected unoppo By David Marquand
The creator At the heart of Gordon Brown's popularity is the fact he is not Tony Blair. Here David Marquand sugg By David Marquand
Britain’s own C-word The big question in coming months is how far the new leader will transform the machinery of state. D By David Marquand