Ross McKibbin

Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24. Parties and People: England 1914-51 will be published next spring.

In the LRB Archive:

• At the Tory Conference: At the Tory Conference · 22 October 2009

• Will we notice when the Tories have won?: Election Blues · 24 September 2009

• Will We Care When Labour Loses?: Gordon Brown’s Failures · 26 March 2009

• What can Cameron do?: The Tories and the Financial Crisis · 23 October 2008

• What Works Doesn’t Work: Politics without Ideas · 11 September 2008

• An Element of Unfairness: the Great Education Disaster · 3 July 2008

• Not Pleasing the Tidy-Minded: Postwar Britain · 24 April 2008

  • Austerity Britain, 1945-51 by David Kynaston

• Who’s on the Ropes Now?: A Bad Week for Gordon Brown · 1 November 2007

• Pure New Labour: Three Groans for Gordon · 4 October 2007

• Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism: Ten Years of Blair · 22 March 2007

• Sleazy, Humiliated, Despised: Can Labour survive Blair? · 7 September 2006

• The Reshuffle and After: Why Brown should Resign · 25 May 2006

• The Destruction of the Public Sphere: Brown v. Cameron · 5 January 2006

• What Blair Threw Away: Feckless, Irresponsible and Back in Power · 19 May 2005

• Perhaps a Merlot: Go on, have a flutter · 3 March 2005

  • Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present and Future by David Miers

• How to dislodge a leader who doesn’t want to go: Where are the Backbenchers? · 8 July 2004

• Why did it end so badly?: Thatcher · 18 March 2004

  • Margaret Thatcher, Vol. II: The Iron Lady by John Campbell

• How to put the politics back into Labour: Origins of the Present Mess · 7 August 2003

• Why did he risk it?: Blair, Brown and the US · 3 April 2003

• Nothing More Divisive: The Great Secondary School Disaster · 28 November 2002

• Non-Party Man: Stafford Cripps · 19 September 2002

  • The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke

• The Luck of the Tories: The Debt to Kinnock · 7 March 2002

  • Kinnock: The Biography by Martin Westlake

• The Tax-and-Spend Vote: will the election improve New Labour’s grasp on reality? · 5 July 2001

• ‘They Mean us no Harm’ on John Maynard Keynes · 8 February 2001

  • John Maynard Keynes: Vol. III: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 by Robert Skidelsky

• Make enemies and influence people tells Tony Blair what to do · 20 July 2000

• The Iceman Cometh on Tony Adams · 6 January 2000

  • Addicted by Tony Adams and Ian Ridley

• Mondeo Man in the Driving Seat on Blair’s Government at Mid-Term (1999) · 30 September 1999

• Third Way, Old Hat: Amnesia at the Top · 3 September 1998

• Why One-Nation Tories can no longer make an impression on the political establishment: Gilmour’s Way · 16 April 1998

  • Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since 1945 by Ian Gilmour and Mark Garnett

• Mass-Observation in the Mall · 2 October 1997

• Why the Tories Lost · 3 July 1997

• Very Old Labour · 3 April 1997

• If/when Labour gets in … · 22 February 1996

• Why did they do it, and what should they do next? · 25 May 1995

• On the Defensive · 26 January 1995

  • Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal. The Report of the Commission on Social Justice

• Skimming along · 20 October 1994

  • The Major Effect edited by Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh

• It all gets worse · 22 September 1994

  • The New Industrial Relations? by Neil Millward

• After Smith · 9 June 1994

• Against it · 24 February 1994

  • For the Sake of Argument by Christopher Hitchens

• Customers of the State · 9 September 1993

• Labour Blues · 11 February 1993

  • Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Neil kinnock’s Labour Party by Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee

• Stormy and prolonged applause transforming itself into standing ovation · 5 November 1992

  • Dancing with Dogma: Britain under Thatcherism by Ian Gilmour

• The Sense of an Ending · 28 May 1992

• When Labour last ruled · 9 April 1992

  • ‘Goodbye, Great Britain’: The 1976 IMF Crisis by Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross

• What is Labour to do? · 27 February 1992

• Homage to Wilson and Callaghan · 24 October 1991

  • Power, Competition and the State. Vol. II: Threats to the Post-War Settlement, Britain, 1961-1974, Vol. III: The End of the Post-War Era, Britain since 1974 by Keith Middlemas
  • Labour’s Economic Policies, 1974-1979 edited by Michael Artis and David Cobham

• With or without the workers · 25 April 1991

  • The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Kinnock by David Marquand

• Radical Democrats · 7 March 1991

  • Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80 by Tony Benn, edited by Ruth Winstone
  • Words as Weapons: Selected Writings 1980-1990 by Paul Foot

• Diary · 6 December 1990

• What a progressive government will have to do · 30 August 1990

  • The Alternative: Politics for a Change edited by Ben Pimlott, Anthony Wright and Tony Flower

• Making things happen · 26 July 1990

  • Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays by R.W. Johnson

• Mrs Thatcher’s Ecstasy · 24 May 1990

• The way we live now · 11 January 1990

  • New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s edited by Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques

• Diary · 23 November 1989

• Ross McKibbin on the summer of discontent · 17 August 1989

• Hobsbawm Today · 22 June 1989

  • Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writings, 1977-88 by Eric Hobsbawm

• Extravagance · 2 February 1989

  • The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 by Peter Clarke

• Losers · 23 October 1986

  • The Politics of the UCS Work-In: Class Alliances and the Right to Work by John Foster and Charles Woolfson
  • A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism by David Howell
  • The Miners’ Strike 1984-5: Loss without Limit by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd
  • Red Hill: A Mining Community by Tony Parker
  • Strike Free: New Industrial Relations in Britain by Philip Bassett

• Big Acts · 19 February 1981

  • Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison by Kenneth Morgan and Jane Morgan

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