Robert Philpot Articles

Tony Blair’s legacy is hotly contested. He defends it to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison The expected publication next year of the much-delayed Chilcot inquiry will reopen, if it ever closed, the debate about Britain’s most controversial foreign policy action since...

Final thoughts from our departing director After many years at the helm, this is my last edition as editor of this magazine, and director of Progress. It has been a great privilege to have had this opportunity and to have had it for so long. I believe it is one of the...

One way or another, a historical truism will be broken next May, Tristram Hunt tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison For a brief moment, there is an air of professorial detachment as Tristram Hunt contemplates next May’s general election. We are discussing the fact...

There will be no big spending under Labour, Chris Leslie tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Chris Leslie is an improbable hate figure. With his affable manner and gentle northern accent, he is not obviously one of politics’ bruisers. Yet in June the Observer’s...