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On National Centrism

‘Starmerism’ has been defined by absence rather than a firm plan for government. Now the Labour leadership is tending towards passive acceptance of the nationalist spirit of the age.

Collaged image of Tony Blair shaking hands with Margaret Thatcher

‘The world as we knew it has gone’, declaimed Keir Starmer in The Telegraph in early April, with all the acuity of someone who, having slept through an earthquake, wakes up amid the ruins. But though he recognised the redundancy of ‘old assumptions’, his register granted to the new world a familiarity — a hint of […]

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