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Luke Mansarpour
19th february, 2009
While attempting to track Tony Blair’s descent into madness is a bewildering task, shrouded as it is in Christian mysticism and an unpredictably gluttonous appetite for destruction, there is something inevitable about David Miliband becoming the latest smug face of “post-ideological” New Labour Britain.
In many respects the British foreign secretary personifies the sorry culmination of the last three decades of the mainstream left in his country. The son of a distinguished Marxist political philosopher, he started his intellectual life with leftist leanings, writing in support of the Miner’s strike of 1984-5 and working for socialist MP John McDonnell at then-lefty Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council.
In These New Times 