Hillary Clinton may yet show that precedents are there to be broken, writes Robert Philpot It was once an apparently...
Deprecated: Function wp_make_content_images_responsive is deprecated since version 5.5.0! Use wp_filter_content_tags() instead. in /home/edadbce1/archive.progressivebritain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114
Robert Philpot Articles
Words are not enough
On Syria, Labour has been here before Next July marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war....
Power of speech
Thirty years after Neil Kinnock’s Bournemouth speech, Robert Philpot recalls the fight to save the Labour party from...
‘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...
The limits of populism
For much of the last three decades, leftwing populism has seemed something of a contradiction in terms. Even after...
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...
‘Time to end stitch and fix’
Machine politics has had its day, Chuka Umunna tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Labour must ‘kick machine...
‘Stand up for diversity’
Labour ‘could do more’ to challenge anti-immigration messages, Diane Abbott tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison...
Miliband’s audacious gamble
It is normally sensible to check the small print beneath politicians’ rhetorical flourishes but Ed Miliband’s claim...
Mend it, don’t end it – part II
Less than a year into his leadership, Ed Miliband made clear his aversion to ‘some Cameron-type strategy of...
A good week for Labour
A fiercely political chancellor, George Osborne has long been a better reader of the opinion polls than steward of the...
Euro questions to answer
The simmering anger over the apparent stitch-up of the selection of Labour’s candidates for next year’s European...