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三十多年来,迈克尔·戈夫一直是英国保守主义的核心人物。作为一名记者、政府大臣,以及如今保守党圣经《旁观者》杂志的主编,他一直在帮助塑造右翼,尽管该党正进一步向右倾斜。

For more than three decades, Michael Gove has been a leading figure in British Conservatism. As a journalist, government minister and now editor of the Tory bible, the Spectator, he has helped shape the right even as it has moved further rightwards.

要阅读迈克尔·戈夫与《今日马克思主义》派别接触的成果,可查阅他在1998年出版的题为《现代化者的困境:布莱尔时代的激进政治》的文集中的文章。要想快速回顾迈克尔·戈夫当权岁月的风风雨雨,请阅读历史学家理查德·J·埃文斯在《伦敦书评》上发表的《疯狂的达立克》。要进一步了解英国右翼的现状,可以阅读我为《卫报》撰写的专栏文章。

To read the fruits of Michael Gove’s dalliance with the Marxism Today gang, look up his essay in a 1998 collection called The Moderniser’s Dilemma: Radical Politics in the Age of Blair For slalom ride through Michael Gove’s years in power, read The Demented Dalek by the historian Richard J Evans in the London Review of Books To learn more on what’s become of the British right, there’s a column by me for the Guardian Just why the most successful political party is now failing is analysed in-depth by Phil Burton-Cartledge in his book The Party’s Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak Phil also writes a very good blog on British politics, which keeps a close eye on how each party is trying to marshall a coalition of voters.

菲尔·伯顿-卡特利奇在其著作《党亡之时:从撒切尔到苏纳克保守党的兴衰》中,深入分析了为什么这个最成功的政党现在会走向失败。菲尔还撰写了一个关于英国政治的优秀博客,密切关注各个政党如何试图汇聚选民联盟。这是他对凯米·巴德诺赫的评价。

Here he is on Kemi Badenoch Geoffrey Wheatcroft does an entertaining short narrative in Bloody Panico!:

杰弗里·惠特克罗夫特在《血腥惊恐!:或保守党究竟怎么了》中进行了有趣的短篇叙述:或者关于卡梅伦执政时期的经济学,这篇论文敏锐地指出了保守党是如何未能将英国从一个租房者国家转变为一个制造者国家。该论文的两位作者将参加本系列后续的播客节目。

or, Whatever Happened to The Tory Party For more on the economics of the Cameron years, this paper is acute on how the Tories failed to move the UK away from being a country of renters towards a country of makers. Two of its authors will join us for a podcast later in the series.

如果你想了解脱欧可能如何让英国损失了百分之八的GDP,这里有一篇基于英格兰银行数据的论文。最后,关于《旁观者》,请阅读娜斯琳·马利克最近在《卫报》上发表的专栏文章:为什么英国历史最悠久的政治杂志会变成伊斯兰恐惧症的狂热啦啦队?

And if you want to read how Brexit may have cost the UK 8% of GDP, there’s this paper based on data from the Bank of England Finally, on the Spectator read Nesrine Malik’s recent column in The Guardian Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia?