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Philip Collins Articles

Time to face facts

Labour should beware the fate of François Hollande, says Philip Collins. Read also Owen Jones' response to How does Labour win a mandate for change, the theme of this Saturday's Progress annual conference Back in 1959, in the days when Labour never looked like winning...
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The Words of Our Time

The political speech, against all expectation in a networked world, still counts. The essence of the speech remains the event that Aristotle described in his Rhetoric 5,000 years ago. This volume brings the genre right up to date. John Shosky, a speechwriter for three...
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Outside in

One of the reasons for the diminished status of politics in a rich democracy is that some of its noble causes have disappeared, solved into oblivion by previous generations of reformers. Peter Hain evaded this problem by being born into a distinguished political...
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Labour new and blue

Philip Collins of The Times writes today about Progress’ special issue on ‘blue Labour’, previewing our interview with Maurice Glasman and Peter Kellner’s analysis of the cultural divisions in the ‘progressive vote’:

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