If we value
cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation
of existing ethnic groups to find a
basis for such
pluralism, though the persistence
of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.
The failings
of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor
of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor
of Soundings, writes very well on the failings
of New Labour (see page 88
of this Soundings e-book, which is
based on a series
of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years
of New Labour — the
pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea
of a covenant
of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.