Outputs (12)

‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979 (2015)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2016). ‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979. Political Studies, 64(1_suppl), 156-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12210

Recent descriptions of British Conservatism have often identified the defence of inequality as one of its core ideological features. By drawing upon Michael Freeden's morphological conception of ideologies, this article will challenge such descriptio... Read More about ‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979.

Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond (2011)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2011). Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond. Parliamentary Affairs, 64(4), 634-651. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsr015

David Owen entered the House of Commons as member for Plymouth in 1966. He became a junior minister under Harold Wilson by 1968 and quickly established himself as a leading figure of the Labour right. From 1977 to 1979 he was Britain's youngest post-... Read More about Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond.