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Robert Philpot Articles

‘Take a leaf out of the Tories’ book’

Chris Mullin’s diaries trace the rise and fall of New Labour. He talks to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison about the lessons he learned On Thursday 12 May 1994, for the first time in his life, Chris Mullin began to keep a diary. His first entry – ‘John Smith is dead’...
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The limits of populism

For much of the last three decades, leftwing populism has seemed something of a contradiction in terms. Even after Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan departed the political stage, the right retained a powerful hold over much of the traditional discourse of populism:...
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A peculiar mix of Dave Spart and Adrian Mole

In April, the New Statesman published a special supplement marking its centenary. It included reprints of classic articles by some of its most celebrated writers – including TS Elliott, George Orwell, and Virginia Woolf – and contributions by AS Byatt, Melvyn Bragg...
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‘Time to end stitch and fix’

Machine politics has had its day, Chuka Umunna tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Labour must ‘kick machine politics out of the party’, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has argued. In a passionate defence of Ed Miliband’s party reform plans, the shadow...
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