http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/third-way Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:14:22 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:14:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1151/why-being-third-isnt-good-enough-a-critique-of-the-third-way By Peter Hand - For a government so keen on ‘sound-bite’ over substance, gimmicks over values and image over principle, the early indications were, that this was a government void of any real beliefs. Apart from a desire to win – a means in itself – it has been very difficult to pinpoint what exactly is this government’s philosophy. This indeed has been the case from the ‘peoples’ Prime Minster’, to the people themselves. For example, we started off with ‘Cool Britannia’, designed to represent the ‘new’ spirit of this Labour government... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1151/why-being-third-isnt-good-enough-a-critique-of-the-third-way http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1125/in-defence-of-the-third-way-a-response-to-peter-hand By Paul Williams And Rob Dixon - In Issue 53 of Interstate, Peter Hand argued that the ‘Third Way’ was nothing but a well packaged combination of rhetoric and soundbites on the part of a government wholly obsessed by presentation.[1] Given the constraints of space we will limit ourselves to primarily responding to Hand’s agenda by contesting four of the central themes of his “argument”. However, it is sometimes difficult to flesh out the assumptions and lines of argument Hand was making because of his own indulgence in ‘soundbite over substance’. The four themes we wish to contest... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1125/in-defence-of-the-third-way-a-response-to-peter-hand