Anthony Giddens Articles

The next Labour leader should see it as their duty to create the space to encourage real debate It used to be said of the American Democrats that, in the aftermath of their repeated electoral drubbings in the 1980s, the party’s response was to form a circular firing...

Labour revisionism takes on both leftwing orthodoxy and the destructive potential of capitalism, writes Gregg McClymont Each generation must overturn the conventional wisdoms of the last. In social democracy this process for more than a century has been called...

Tony Giddens has written a great book, his best since The Third Way in my view, though the Politics of Climate Change was also very good. He takes as his theme the ‘future of Europe’, but this is no nerd-like, institutionally obsessed text. It is essentially a book...

Labour must understand the way Europe is heading —I have serious reservations about the ‘One Nation’ tag that Labour has filched from the Conservatives and nailed to its masthead. It is too inward-looking and parochial. We are living through one of the most...