Gertrude Himmelfarb: Brown’s Guru

Vallely, Paul. "Gertrude Himmelfarb: Brown's guru." The Independent. November 02, 2007.

Abstract:

Tony Blair, you will recall, was the chap with the Big Tent. Nothing so crass as that for Gordon Brown. But consider the speech he gave on liberty and the need for a new Bill of Rightsearlier this month. And look at the list of sources he cited: the Magna Carta, Milton, Locke, Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Macaulay, de Tocqueville, Orwell, Churchill, Green, Hobson and Tawney, Jonathan Sacks, Gertrude Himmelfarb…

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