After Blair: Politics after the New Labour decade.

AuthorHassan, Gerry
PositionBrief article - Book review

This book analyses some of the main features of the Blair era, now coming to an end, and asks what the future holds for progressive politics. An over-arching story of a commitment to socialism once made the compromises of government worthwhile or bearable. After Blair asks whether progressives still have a story that can sustain their faith in the future.

Highlights include

Andrew Gamble on New Labour debates

Alan Finlayson on the social democratic retreat

Colin Crouch on democracy

Sue Goss on the public realm

Zygmunt Bauman on Blair and Thatcherism

Gerry Hassan on Britishness

Tom Bentley on the self-creating society

Jake Chapman on public...

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