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Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
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Zoe Williams in The Guardian:‘Iam acutely conscious,” said Andy Burnham outside 10 Downing Street on Monday, “that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to walk up this street.”
Wildly enthusiastic one minute, seething the next; as passionate about the change we want as we are convinced that those who promise it are incapable of enacting it?
It is perhaps not surprising that Anton Jäger’s recent book, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences, is being read by Labour watchers and leftwing thinkers.
As the New York Times wrote, it’s “among the best and most dazzling efforts to model the political present in all its maddening strangeness”.
Still, I think Jäger was surprised to have his honeymoon interrupted so I could interview him about it.