“Reassurance Labour” and post-Blair social democracy
Globally, the centre-left is enduring a period of public weariness and dissatisfaction. In Australia, a relatively unpopular government battles on against a red-blooded Opposition Leader, with the spectre of a leadership context lingering unerringly in the background. Between Kevin and [...]
Giddens' requiem for New Labour
One of New Labour’s intellectual architects (or court theorists), Anthony Giddens, looks back on the New Labour ‘project’. His article in the New Statesman is a disappointing one, which doesn’t actually show much reflection or much awareness of the dissonances [...]
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