David Runciman
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge and hosts the weekly podcast Talking Politics, which can be found on iTunes.
In the LRB Archive:
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The Choice Was Real · 29 June 2017
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Short Cuts: Tony and Jeremy · 20 April 2017
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Talking Politics: John Lanchester · 13 April 2017
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Do your homework: What’s Wrong with Theresa May · 16 March 2017
- Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince
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Talking Politics: Mary Beard · 28 February 2017
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Video: From Tocqueville to Trump · 22 December 2016
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Is this how democracy ends? · 1 December 2016
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Untouchable?: The Tory State? · 8 September 2016
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Where are we now? Responses to the Referendum · 14 July 2016
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Short Cuts · 5 May 2016
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Deliverology: Blair Hawks His Wares · 31 March 2016
- Broken Vows: Tony Blair – The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower
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Fear in Those Blue Eyes: Thatcher in Her Bubble · 3 December 2015
- Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography Vol. II: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore
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A Tide of Horseshit: Climate Change Impasse · 24 September 2015
- Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change by Nicholas Stern
- Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet by Dieter Helm
- Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman
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Short Cuts · 27 August 2015
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Notes on the Election · 21 May 2015
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Notes on the Election · 7 May 2015
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Notes on the Election · 9 April 2015
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Notes on the Election · 5 March 2015
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Notes on the Election · 5 February 2015
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Short Cuts · 6 November 2014
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After the Referendum · 9 October 2014
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A Pound Here, a Pound There · 21 August 2014
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World Cup Diary · 14 July 2014
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The Stuntman: Branson · 20 March 2014
- Branson: Behind the Mask by Tom Bower
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Fergie Time: Sir Alex Speaks (again) · 9 January 2014
- My Autobiography by Alex Ferguson
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Short Cuts · 10 October 2013
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Counter-Counter-Revolution: 1979 · 26 September 2013
- Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl
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Short Cuts · 26 September 2013
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Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat: Thatcher’s Rise · 6 June 2013
- Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography. Vol. I: Not for Turning by Charles Moore
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Destiny v. Democracy: The New Deal · 25 April 2013
- Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson
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How can it work?: American Democracy · 21 March 2013
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Take a bullet for the team: The Profumo Affair · 21 February 2013
- An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
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Everybody gets popped: Lance Armstrong’s Regime · 22 November 2012
- The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
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Stiffed: Occupy · 25 October 2012
- The Occupy Handbook edited by Janet Byrne
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What if he’d made it earlier?: LBJ · 5 July 2012
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV: The Passage of Power by Robert Caro
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Confusion is power: Our Very Own Oligarchs · 7 June 2012
- The New Few, or a Very British Oligarchy: Power and Inequality in Britain Now by Ferdinand Mount
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Will we be all right in the end?: Europe’s Crisis · 5 January 2012
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Socialism in One County: True Blue Labour · 28 July 2011
- The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox: The Oxford London Seminars 2010-11 edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White
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Swing for the Fences: Mourinho’s Way · 30 June 2011
- Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim
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Didn’t they notice?: Offshore · 14 April 2011
- Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
- Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
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Look…: How the coalition was formed · 16 December 2010
- 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition by David Laws
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Preacher on a Tank: Blair Drills Down · 7 October 2010
- A Journey by Tony Blair
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It’s Been a Lot of Fun: Hitchens’s Hitchens · 24 June 2010
- Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
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Is this the end of the UK? · 27 May 2010
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Enabler’s Revenge: John Edwards · 25 March 2010
- The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down by Andrew Young
- Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
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I Could Fix That: Clinton · 17 December 2009
- The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch
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How messy it all is: Who benefits from equality? · 22 October 2009
- The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
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Like Boiling a Frog: The Future of Wikipedia · 28 May 2009
- The Wikipedia Revolution by Andrew Lih
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Bouncebackability: Athenian Democracy and Google · 29 January 2009
- Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens by Josiah Ober
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Diary: The Problem with English Football · 23 October 2008
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Why Not Eat an Eclair?: Why Vote? · 9 October 2008
- Free Riding by Richard Tuck
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The Cattle-Prod Election: The Point of the Polls · 5 June 2008
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This Way to the Ruin: the British Constitution · 7 February 2008
- The British Constitution by Anthony King
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Brown and Friends · 3 January 2008
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In a Faraway Pond: The NGO · 29 November 2007
- Non-Governmental Politics edited by Michel Feher
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Diary: Dylan on the radio · 19 July 2007
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Liars, Hypocrites and Crybabies: Blair v. Brown · 2 November 2006
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Juiced: Winners Do Drugs · 3 August 2006
- Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, Balco and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
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He shoots! He scores!: José Mourinho · 5 January 2006
- Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner by Patrick Barclay
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Cricket’s Superpowers: Beyond the Ashes · 22 September 2005
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Tax Breaks for Rich Murderers: Bush and the ‘Death Tax’ · 2 June 2005
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth by Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro
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Institutional Hypocrisy: Selling the NHS · 21 April 2005
- Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare by Dennis Thompson
- NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Healthcare by Allyson Pollock
- Brown’s Britain by Robert Peston
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Neo-Blairism: Blair’s conference speech · 21 October 2004
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How many jellybeans?: non-spurious generalisations and why the crowd will win · 5 August 2004
- Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes by Frederick Schauer
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few by James Surowiecki
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Betting big, winning small: Blair’s Gambles · 20 May 2004
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The Precautionary Principle: Taking a Chance on War · 1 April 2004
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Oh, the curse!: a home run · 19 February 2004
- Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
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Shockingly Worldly: the Abbé Sieyès · 23 October 2003
- Emmanuel Sieyès: Political Writings edited by Michael Sonenscher
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Politicians in a Fix: The uses of referendums · 10 July 2003
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The Politics of Good Intentions: Blair’s Masochism · 8 May 2003
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A Bear Armed with a Gun: The Widening Atlantic · 3 April 2003
- Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
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The Garden, the Park and the Meadow: After the Nation State · 6 June 2002
- The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
- Reordering the World: The Long-Term Implications of 11 September edited by Mark Leonard
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11 September · 4 October 2001
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Invented Communities: post-nationalism · 19 July 2001
- Democracy in Europe by Larry Siedentop
- The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Max Pensky
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Creative Accounting: Money and the Arts · 4 June 1998
- Artist Unknown: An Alternative History of the Arts Council by Richard Witts
- In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen
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No Exit · 23 May 1996
- The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain edited by S.J.D. Green and R.C. Whiting
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The Plot to Make Us Stupid · 22 February 1996
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