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'Move it along, Granddad, you're getting in the way of The Scene! The London Scene, that is! From Soho to Notting Hill, from Camberwell to Camden Town, the capital city [...]

All Out War: the Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class Tim Shipman William Collins, 630pp. 25 £ Unleashing Demons: the Inside Story of Brexit Craig Oliver Hodder [...]

If you want a sense of the Britain of 40 years ago, a good place to start is the feature-length film Rude Boy, released in 1980 and put together over [...]

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght Harvard, 384pp. 23.95 [pounds sterling] Utopia for Realists And How We [...]

The centre of politics has shifted. As Barack Obama's victory and frantic first weeks in office prove, to talk about equality, fairness, control of markets and environmental sustainability is to [...]

Like Blair in the 1990s, the Tory leader is being all things to all men, writes John Harris. For all its woolly elusiveness, the Cameron project is showing weaknesses, though [...]

AU Gates Open: The Story of Can Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt Faber & Faber, 592pp. 25 [pounds sterling] 'We don't think in terms of technical ability,' said Irmin Schmidt [...]

What's Left Now? The History and Future of Social Democracy Andrew Hindmoor Oxford University Press, 285pp. 20 [pounds sterling] In the archives of Newsweek magazine is a 2,000-word article credited [...]

Just seven months ago, Labour suffered a defeat of epic proportions. It was its worst performance since 1918, barring the loss it suffered under Michael Foot in 1983. But where [...]

It seems like a different age. An election victory marked by a star-spangled reception at Downing Street; a prime minister who sought the company of footballers and rock stars; endless [...]

The doorbell rang soon after the start of Tony Blair's Paxman interview. The Prime Minister was being challenged on his role in the death of Dr David Kelly; downstairs, my [...]

Watching the parties' first decisive electoral moves a month or so ago, one had a distinct feeling of deja vu. Faced with the apathy and disengagement of its core voters, [...]

Palaces For The People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society Eric Klinenberg Bodley Head, 288pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling] In July 1995, a tropical heatwave hit Chicago and [...]

It must have been early 1987. BBC2 had just broadcast a documentary about Jack Kerouac, which I had taped on to a VHS. By the following week, I had got [...]

The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit and America's Trump Anthony Barnett Unbound, 416pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling] If the early hours of 24 June and 9 November 2016 sit in your [...]

rides the waves of The Beach Boys' changing fortunes Few rock groups have ever found themselves in as incongruous a place as The Beach Boys occupied at the tail-end of [...]

Was punk merely a scam, or was it a movement that served notice of Britain's cultural and political stagnation? John Harris re-examines punk's assault on orthodoxy and asks: Is pop [...]

By the time I got to Stoke-on-Trent, it was obvious. I watched as a team of Labour canvassers knocked on 20 doors in the suburb of Kidsgrove and made the [...]

Better or Worse? Has Labour delivered? Polly Toynbee and David Walker Bloomsbury, 346pp, £7.99 As Tony Blair hares around the country, verblessly dispensing his vision of 'Your family better off' [...]

Passion is a Fashion: the real story of the Clash Pat Gilbert Aurum Press, 320pp, £18.99 Towards the end of this impressively exhaustive biography of the Clash, one of the […]

The Beatles Come to America Martin Goldsmith John Wiley, 196pp, £13.50 In the summer of 1967, the Harvard academic-turned-evangelist of LSD Timothy Leary offered his opinion of the Beatles' new […]

Towards the end of the 1970s, my dad marked my tenth birthday by buying me a very glamorous coffee-table book entitled The Illustrated History of the Rock Album Cover. It [...]

Words and Music: a history of pop in the shape of a city Paul Morley Bloomsbury, 360pp, 12.99 £ Some years ago, I was in the habit of playing a [...]

In May 1997, I was the editor of the now-defunct music monthly Select, a magazine that will forever be associated with the music known as Britpop. On account of that [...]

The article discusses some of the major political events in 2016. Topics covered include Great Britain's exit (Brexit) from the European Union (EU), the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, the problems of the Labour Party in Great Britain, the political disorder in Europe and the surge of populism.

House Music: the Oona King Diaries Oona King Bloomsbury, 373pp, £12.99 It is not hard to think the worst of Oona King, the erstwhile east London MP whose defeat at […]

It's Tuesday, and I am sweating my way around the suburbs of Havana. Along with a cameraman and producer-cum-director, I'm here to author a film for Newsnight about the wonders [...]

In the wake of recent events, looking back at the morning of 6 May 2005 feels like surveying an altogether more innocent era. With jihadists allegedly massing at the gates [...]

Not Abba: the real story of the 1970s Dave Haslam Fourth Estate, 359pp, £12.99 The writer and club DJ Dave Haslam grew up in the West Midlands and reached adolescence [...]

Where Have All the Good Times Gone?: the rise and fall of the record industry Louis Barfe Atlantic, 395pp, £17.99 When I first began writing about rock music, the record […]

In the wake of Brit pop, the once iconic Manchester band The Stone Roses have come to seem slightly tragic. Because their career was one of spectacularly unfulfilled potential (they [...]

The article focuses on political issues in Great Britain. It is stated that it might be essentially attitudinal if Labour has a central shortcoming. It is noted that offering a convincing prospect of calm and transcending the chaos and fragmentation, breaking beyond the bubbles are some of the essential challenges for the new model Labour Party.

In this essay the authors discuss the political aspects of the 2009 financial crisis and subsequent recession in Great Britain. They suggest that the severity of the economic downturn offers an opportunity for wide ranging political reconstruction that reaches beyond policies followed by the Conservative and Labour parties. INSET: 10 IDEAS.

The article reports that so far Conservative leader David Cameron is doing a fabulous job of making himself appear middle-class, nonpartisan and friendly to leftist causes. Cameron is using the modern phenomenon of the public love for grand ideas and calls to action, backed by few specifics, to steer Britain towards a Conservative victory.

In this essay the authors consider the British Labour Party and changes in the social democratic order. The article refers to the Labour Party's loss in the May 2010 general election. The central focus of the article is the authors' contention that the ideals of the Labour Party and the social democracy have to be rethought and remade.

Presents the author's views on Britain's Liberal Democratic party in light of the forthcoming summer recess. View that Charles Kennedy seemed to have nearly vanished since losing election; Review of comments made by Kennedy regarding the leadership of British Prime Minister Tony Blair following the terrorist bombings of July 7, 2005; Comments regarding the party from Lembit Opik, the party's Wales and Northern Ireland spokesman.

Discusses various aspects of politics in England. Comments about English Prime Minister Tony Blair's response to the bombings in London; Description of the Labour party; Lack of popularity for this party within England.

Profiles John Squire, the former guitarist of the British band "The Stone Roses." Comparison of "The Stone Roses" to another British band called "Oasis"; Favorite books of singer Ian Brown and Squire; Background of both musicians; Background of the band, including their break up late in the 1990s; Re-emergence of Squire in 2002 with his solo album "Time Changes Everything"; Other works of Squire; Painting career of Squire; Inspiration of artist Jackson Pollock on the art of Squire; Details of an art retrospective exhibit of Squire's.