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There was once a sketch on The Day Today in which candidates were asked “So, the climate, yes or no? Just one word answers gentlemen, please”. The first leaders' debate sounded a bit like this at times. The format was dire and allowed…
This piece was originally published on Philip Collins' Substack and can be found here. I think of Frank Field in Birkenhead, the constituency he served with such distinction between 1979 and 2019. In a pub in the Georgian glory of Hamilton…
Nick Thomas-Symonds’s recent biography of Harold Wilson has a very telling sub-title: "The Winner." Wilson won four elections and joins Clement Attlee and Tony Blair in a sparsely populated pantheon of post-war Labour winners. There are…
