Professor of Political History, University of Nottingham
I work (research, teach, blather for money) on British politics and political history and have written extensively on the subject, from Irish Catholic working-class culture to New Labour. My next book, A State of Play (Bloomsbury, 2014), is about fictional representations of politics.
I write regularly for the Guardian's Comment is Free and have presented a couple of documentaries for Radio 4, the latest one on dystopias and politics can still be heard here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x5c9z
Labour: why Jeremy Corbyn still struggles to turn his dream of a social movement into reality
Sep 24, 2018 06:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
During his 2016 leadership campaign Jeremy Corbyn spoke to a packed meeting of supporters. We are a social movement, he said. Corbyn has certainly overseen a transformation of the Labour Party. From fewer than 200,000...
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