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Ross McKibbin

Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.

From the London Review dated 7 August 2003

How to put the politics back into Labour

“The extent of the continued underfunding of the public services, the Government’s confirmation that it wishes the House of Lords to be wholly nominated, something scarcely believable in a democratic society, the travails of the almost incoherent NHS legislation, the tacit admission that the mania for targets and league tables might be counterproductive, the Cabinet reshuffle that got badly out of hand, all these suggest a Government which does not need Iraq to be in a crisis. In these circumstances we would expect people to ask the Prime Minister to go. Should he resign? The obvious answer is yes: more than any other individual he is responsible for Labour finding itself in a political and intellectual dead-end. But this is to over-individualise what has happened.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

Married Love by Marie Stopes, edited by Ross McKibbin (2004)
Consensus or Coercion? The State, the People and Social Cohesion in Post-War Britain foreword by Ross McKibbin (2001)
Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 (1998)
Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880-1950 (1990)
The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-24 (1984)

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