David Edgerton: “The UK needs a politics of modesty”
The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic…
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George Eaton
George Eaton is senior editor of the New Statesman. He was political editor from 2014 until 2018.
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The Tories’ tax delusion
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