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the New Statesman podcast, editor Jason Cowley, politics editor George Eaton,

and philosopher and new Statesman contributor John Gray. editor of the New Statesman. I'm delighted to say that with me is one of our

favorite writers, John Gray, the philosopher, author, a New Statesman's lead book

reviewer and I also have our political editor George Easton with me. John a few weeks ago you wrote an

essay in the statesman about Ed Miliband, his worldview, his policies which in the jargon of the internet travelled. A lot of people

read it. Had great uptake online. And you, your central thesis, if I can call it that, was that in some way, some fundamental

way Milliband misunderstands the present.

Can you talk a little bit about that and what you meant by that?

Yes, Jason. I mean, I think Miller Band has positioned himself according to the view, which

is his genuine reading of the present condition of British politics on the basis of the belief

that we're now in a situation akin to that in the mid-1970s or the late 1970s when an old

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