Tony Cutler (London): A Necessary Complexity: History and Public-Management Reform. From Dissent, an article on renewing Britain's New Labour project. The essence of Orwellianism: It isn't the spycams that make Britain Orwellian - - it is New Labour's taste for intervening in our lives. It's very unlikely that your vote will ever change the result of an election, but your right to vote is not to be given up lightly. Shlomo Ben-Ami on Britain’s new internationalism. From Prospect, fatuous leftism: Some of the hostile responses to Andrew Anthony's book, Fall Out, exemplified the very attitudes the author aimed to expose. Here's the preface to the new edition of What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen. For 150 years, John Stuart Mill has been the intellectual icon of the British left - but his ideas address few of the problems we face today, and more on John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves.
