Robert Philpot
By Robert Philpot
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Culture The Refugee War Reporter Who Brought ‘Doctor Zhivago’ To The West
Over the past decade, the remarkable story of the international late 1950s effort to defy Soviet censors and secure publication of “Doctor Zhivago” has focused on the role played by western spies and spooks. But while the CIA secretly worked to smuggle bootleg copies of Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece back into the Soviet Union — a…
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Opinion After Theresa May Trounces Corbyn, What Should The Labour Party Do?
How far can Britain’s Labour party fall? That appears to remain the only open question as the general election – which seems certain to return Theresa May’s government to power with a vastly increased parliamentary majority – kicks off. But if Labour’s condition across the country as a whole is critical — polls currently show…
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Opinion Labour Pain: Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn Sides With Ken Livingstone Over Jewish Voters
There have been few occasions over the past three decades when a battle between Britain’s Labour party and the country’s Jewish community has not featured the name of Ken Livingstone. If the former London mayor was not at the center of the argument, he soon made sure to insert himself into it. Today, Labour decided…
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