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“... persuasions and prejudices may think of its contents, raises interesting questions in itself. As Ross McKibbin has pointed out in the LRB (‘Third Way, Old Hat’), the search for, and debate about, the ‘Third Way’ is amazingly unhistorical – as if ‘New’ Liberalism had never been invented. To say nothing of the SDP and David Owen’s Face the ...”

“... about her included Ian Gilmour, W.G. Runciman, Neal Ascherson, Christopher Hitchens, R.W. Johnson, Ross McKibbin, E.P. Thompson, Tam Dalyell and Peter Clarke. What they wrote seemed excellent to me, with Runciman bearing the palm for aphoristic conciseness. In embarking on a review, also in 1989, of Hugo Young’s biography of her, R.W. Johnson was also ...”

“... in which the SNP refused to take part. The result of that refusal is now very evident. Ross McKibbin In a thoughtful​ and good-humoured Guardian interview last month, the Scottish novelist Alan Warner said that he loves England and has spent a fair bit of time there but that, like most Scottish writers, he’s ‘a “Yes” man’, one who ...”

“... he qualified for inclusion himself, an entry done quite beautifully by his friend and colleague, Ross McKibbin. So what are the criteria for inclusion, aside from being dead? These have been stated in slightly different terms at different stages in the project, but the most inclusive brief formula is that subjects must have ‘in some way influenced ...”