The Iceman Cometh

Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.

Other articles by this contributor:

The Tax-and-Spend Vote · Ross McKibbin wonders whether the election will improve New Labour’s grasp on reality

Why did he risk it? · Blair, Brown and the US

Sleazy, Humiliated, Despised · Can Labour survive Blair?

The Reshuffle and After · Why Brown should Resign

Pure New Labour · Three Groans for Gordon

Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism · Ten Years of Blair

Nothing More Divisive · The Great Secondary School Disaster

An Element of Unfairness · the Great Education Disaster