Steve Richards

Steve Richards presents a twice-weekly podcast Rock N Roll Politics and is a former political editor of the New Statesman.

Mandelson’s adoration of wealth and power reaches its inevitable conclusion

Peter Mandelson’s career sheds light on his party’s ideological fragility

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By Steve Richards

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We’re all radicals now.

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Robotic televised politicians bore the public. It’s time to bring back stirring speeches at live events.

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Nigel Farage is preparing for a summer offensive on borders and security.

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British prime ministers keep putting faith in Washington, and it keeps letting them down.

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This government is losing the battle of ideas.

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The Attorney General is a genuine insurgent inside this Labour government.

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This administration has fallen into the same cycle of failure that afflicts so many Labour governments.

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Also this week: Why Keir Starmer isn’t boring, and dancing with David Miliband.

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