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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Robbie Shilliam.

We talked about his article, Enoch Powell,

Britain's first neoliberal politician, which appeared in the New Political Economy Journal.

We spoke about how the notoriously racist Powell, far from being a political throwback,

was in fact a key figure in the emergence of neoliberalism and Thatcherism,

and whose politics presaged the Brexit project.

We also chatted about how Powell, in contrast to many conservatives, became hostile to nostalgia

for the British Empire, and how he believed that an independent Britain, neither ruling an empire

nor becoming part of the embryonic European Union, would find its proper place in the world.

Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books, who

have lots of excellent titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners.

One that you might like to check out is Taking a Long Look, Essays on Culture, Literature and

Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick.

Growing up in the Bronx, amongst communists and socialists,

Vivian Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice,

chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s.

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