As the twenty–first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the ascendant. Britain?s New Labour was only the most spectacular in a whole series of political restorations. For many, this renewal only became possible when ?modernizing? social democratic parties jettisoned their old ideological and institutional baggage, setting off down a ?third way? that rejected the outmoded ideas of both left and right. The argument of Hard Choices is that this view is doubly misleading: it misrepresents the past and misunderstands the present. The first half of the book restores some of the complexity to social democracy?s past and shows that it was much more subtle, varied and intelligent than its latter–day critics suppose. Turning to the present, the second half of the book shows how a few contemporary half–truths – relating to globalization and demographic change – have been used to justify the...

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