| Summary: | Since 1997, Tony Blair's New Labour have made the sort of massive shift in British society last accomplished by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. But Labour's failings are numerous — acessant meddling, an obsession with gets and initiatives, paranoia over presentation, a myopic view of the moral high ground and the disastrous war in Iraq, to name but a few. Except, to paraphrase Thatcher - there is no alternative. The Conservatives, the most successful political party ever, traumatised by the Iron Lady's legacy, have railed to respond and look set to languish in opposition.Kieron О Нага argues that what conservatism needs is a return to its ideological roots, after the aberration of Thatcherism. Recast for the 21st-century world, true conservatism can represent an alternative to Blair's hvperactive over-government. Part new history of conservative thinking - something which hasn't been written for a century - and part (proudly unofficial) manifesto for the centre-right, After Blair argues that in the chaos and flux of the modern world the enlightened scepticism and hands-off approach of conservatism is, in fact, the best chance we have. |
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