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...concealed. Peter Sinclair, his Oxford economics professor, says, "We've had rather few Prime Ministers who've been as intellectually able as David," but recalls that his student (who, he says, won "a sparkling first") was "keen not to show up other people." A similar tribute comes from Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford: "He was one of the nicest and ablest pupils I ever taught...
Just as Obama's critics question the substance behind the change message, Cameron has come under pressure to provide a clearer picture of what that change might entail. "The public wants a song to sing," says Bogdanor. "They want to know what sort of theme would be the main theme of the Conservative government...
...sight of the fact that on the big issues - the case for an open economy, a need to reform public services, an admiration of most things American - they are cut from the same cloth. "People forget that Brown was a founder of New Labour, as Blair was," says Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford University. Any differences that emerge between the two men, Bogdanor continues, will be "ones of emphasis and style rather than anything fundamental." Cameron, for his part, has learned from Blair's assiduous courting of the "middle ground" of politics, and has spent the last three...
Amid the burgeoning scandals, the question remains, Does it matter? The British are often tolerant of people's weaknesses and foibles. "The monarchy has not lost the support of public opinion," claims Vernon Bogdanor, Oxford's constitutional expert, and indeed, according to a Gallup poll, support for ending it has held steady at 15% for the past five or six years. Republicanism remains, as author Julian Barnes pointed out in the New Yorker, "a spindly growth." The Guardian, a newspaper that endorses it, ran a poll a year ago that showed support for a republic...
...upward social mobility, increased access to property -- has lifted most of them into the middle class and deprived socialist parties of their natural electoral base. "As a result of economic changes, the working class all over the West has been shrinking since the 1960s," says Oxford University lecturer Vernon ) Bogdanor. "The old icons, the old ideology are outmoded." That leads some observers to pronounce the movement dead. "It's finished," says French social philosopher Jean-Francois Revel. "It was a great intellectual adventure that turned out to be a historical parenthesis...
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