Richard Heller | Contributor

Contributor | Richard Heller

Richard Heller was chief of staff to Denis Healey and Gerald Kaufman, and as a journalist has reported on and analysed six Presidential elections. He is also the author of The Prisoner of Rubato Towers.

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Another supply of wet cardboard from Keir Starmer

George Orwell once likened political clichés to tea leaves blocking a...

Richard Heller

April 14, 2025

Trump’s State Visit: A call for national derision

In spite of the magnificent language of their Privy Council oaths,...

Richard Heller

March 31, 2025

Was Donald Trump Really Saved By God?

In his Inauguration Address Donald Trump claimed that “"I was saved...

Richard Heller

March 4, 2025

Starmer has put his head even further into the mouth of Donald Trump

Let no one say that Keir Starmer lacks daring. In appointing...

Richard Heller

January 16, 2025

Who should be Oxford University’s new Chancellor? Anyone but Peter Mandelson.

The world is already engulfed in fake news, fake science, and...

Richard Heller

November 14, 2024

Blair and Mandelson do little to aid Starmer’s cause

Having wheeled them out for the local elections, Keir Starmer would...

Richard Heller

May 31, 2022

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