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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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

What are some more interesting ways of showing our anger at Putin?

While governments and nations continue to denounce the actions of Vladimir...

Richard Heller

March 23, 2022

Goodbye to the Western world - we’ll be sorry when it disappears

As peace in Eastern Europe appears to stand on a knife-edge...

Richard Heller

February 8, 2022

Boris Johnson remains the David Brent of British politics

Despite history being littered with political gaffes, Boris Johnson's efforts to...

Richard Heller

January 5, 2022

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