This morning's deal only goes to show that everything about the relatively simple bit of the wrong-minded Brexit...
Robert Philpot Articles
Last Word: Fitting the Momentum mould
The Momentum loyalty test is in the very best tradition of democratic centralism – not democratic socialism, Robert...
Last Word: Not the only villain
The Boris Johnson angle to the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case may have piqued domestic interest, but we should...
Comeback Hill
Hillary Clinton may yet show that precedents are there to be broken, writes Robert Philpot It was once an apparently...
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...
Bernie-mentum
Is Vermont’s socialist senator pulling Hillary Clinton to the left, asks Robert Philpot At 4.47pm on Wednesday 27...
The politics of delusion
In November 1988, the Democrat presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, led his party to its third consecutive defeat....
Gang of one
Will Nigel Farage meet the fate of the SDP, asks Robert Philpot On 26 March 1981, four former Labour cabinet ministers...
Littered with irony
Nigel Farage is presiding over the Europeanisation of British politics Political history is littered with ironies....
‘It might be worth listening to me’
Tony Blair’s legacy is hotly contested. He defends it to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison The expected publication...
And it’s goodbye from me
Final thoughts from our departing director After many years at the helm, this is my last edition as editor of this...