Ross McKibbin
Ross McKibbin is an emeritus research fellow at St John’s College, Oxford.
In the LRB Archive:
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Where are we now? Responses to the Referendum · 14 July 2016
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The Anti-Candidate · 8 October 2015
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Labour dies again · 4 June 2015
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Labour Vanishes · 20 November 2014
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After the Referendum · 9 October 2014
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If Labour Is Serious… · 30 May 2014
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What makes Rupert run?: Murdoch’s Politics · 20 June 2013
- Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth & Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight
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Anything but Benevolent · 25 April 2013
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‘Wisely I decided to say nothing’: Jack Straw · 22 November 2012
- Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor by Jack Straw
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Money and the Love of Money: Crisis of the System · 2 August 2012
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Call that a coalition? · 5 April 2012
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Cursing and Breast-Beating: Manning Clark’s Legacy · 23 February 2012
- An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna
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The Mess They’re In: Labour’s Limited Options · 20 October 2011
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Can Clegg be forgiven? · 2 June 2011
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Nothing to do with the economy: The Cuts · 18 November 2010
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Time to Repent: The New Political Settlement · 10 June 2010
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Good for Business: The End of Research? · 25 February 2010
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At the Tory Conference · 22 October 2009
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Will we notice when the Tories have won?: Election Blues · 24 September 2009
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Will We Care When Labour Loses?: Gordon Brown’s Failures · 26 March 2009
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What can Cameron do?: The Tories and the Financial Crisis · 23 October 2008
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What Works Doesn’t Work: Politics without Ideas · 11 September 2008
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An Element of Unfairness: the Great Education Disaster · 3 July 2008
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Not Pleasing the Tidy-Minded: Postwar Britain · 24 April 2008
- Austerity Britain, 1945-51 by David Kynaston
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Who’s on the Ropes Now?: A Bad Week for Gordon Brown · 1 November 2007
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Pure New Labour: Three Groans for Gordon · 4 October 2007
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Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism: Ten Years of Blair · 22 March 2007
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Sleazy, Humiliated, Despised: Can Labour survive Blair? · 7 September 2006
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The Reshuffle and After: Why Brown should Resign · 25 May 2006
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The Destruction of the Public Sphere: Brown v. Cameron · 5 January 2006
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What Blair Threw Away: Feckless, Irresponsible and Back in Power · 19 May 2005
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Perhaps a Merlot: Go on, have a flutter · 3 March 2005
- Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present and Future by David Miers
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How to dislodge a leader who doesn’t want to go: Where are the Backbenchers? · 8 July 2004
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Why did it end so badly?: Thatcher · 18 March 2004
- Margaret Thatcher. Vol. II: The Iron Lady by John Campbell
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How to put the politics back into Labour: Origins of the Present Mess · 7 August 2003
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Why did he risk it?: Blair, Brown and the US · 3 April 2003
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Nothing More Divisive: The Great Secondary School Disaster · 28 November 2002
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Non-Party Man: Stafford Cripps · 19 September 2002
- The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke
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The Luck of the Tories: The Debt to Kinnock · 7 March 2002
- Kinnock: The Biography by Martin Westlake
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The Tax-and-Spend Vote: will the election improve New Labour’s grasp on reality? · 5 July 2001
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‘They Mean us no Harm’: John Maynard Keynes · 8 February 2001
- John Maynard Keynes: Vol. III: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 by Robert Skidelsky
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Make enemies and influence people: Why Vote Labour? · 20 July 2000
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The Iceman Cometh: Tony Adams · 6 January 2000
- Addicted by Tony Adams and Ian Ridley
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Mondeo Man in the Driving Seat: Blair’s Government at Mid-Term (1999) · 30 September 1999
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Third Way, Old Hat: Amnesia at the Top · 3 September 1998
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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
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Mass-Observation in the Mall · 2 October 1997
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Why the Tories Lost · 3 July 1997
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Very Old Labour · 3 April 1997
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If/when Labour gets in … · 22 February 1996
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Why did they do it, and what should they do next? · 25 May 1995
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On the Defensive · 26 January 1995
- Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal. The Report of the Commission on Social Justice
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Skimming along · 20 October 1994
- The Major Effect edited by Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh
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It all gets worse · 22 September 1994
- The New Industrial Relations? by Neil Millward
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After Smith · 9 June 1994
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Against it · 24 February 1994
- For the Sake of Argument by Christopher Hitchens
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Customers of the State · 9 September 1993
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Labour Blues · 11 February 1993
- Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Neil Kinnock’s Labour Party by Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee
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Stormy and prolonged applause transforming itself into standing ovation · 5 November 1992
- Dancing with Dogma: Britain under Thatcherism by Ian Gilmour
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The Sense of an Ending · 28 May 1992
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When Labour last ruled · 9 April 1992
- ‘Goodbye, Great Britain’: The 1976 IMF Crisis by Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross
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What is Labour to do? · 27 February 1992
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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
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With or without the workers · 25 April 1991
- The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Kinnock by David Marquand
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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
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Diary · 6 December 1990
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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
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Making things happen · 26 July 1990
- Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays by R.W. Johnson
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Mrs Thatcher’s Ecstasy · 24 May 1990
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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
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Diary · 23 November 1989
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Ross McKibbin on the summer of discontent · 17 August 1989
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Hobsbawm Today · 22 June 1989
- Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writings, 1977-88 by Eric Hobsbawm
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Extravagance · 2 February 1989
- The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 by Peter Clarke
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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
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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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