Chris Clarke
Writing, policy, research

Assorted media coverage for 'The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master' and other projects is listed below, including op eds, reviews, podcasts etc.
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'Saving Starmer', The Rest Is Politics, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, November 2025
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'What Reform gets wrong about Britain', Unherd, Chris Clarke, May 2025
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'The Tories have lost their millennial converts', Unherd, Chris Clarke, June 2023
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‘Tough on crime’ won’t rescue the Tories, Unherd, Chris Clarke, April 2023
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'Who will win the gentrification wars?', Unherd, Chris Clarke, January 2023
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'The secret millennial class war', Unherd, Chris Clarke, January 2023
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'Should Martin Lewis be Prime Minister?', December 2022
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'Why do we pretend to be working-class?', Unherd, Chris Clarke, December 2023
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'Can Starmer break Labour’s curse?' Dominic Sandbrook, Unherd, 06.12.22
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'Labour needs to learn to speak plainly again, or else it is doomed', Independent, Chris Clarke, 26.04.22
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'Thinking in Straight Lines', Chris Clarke, Progressive Britain, Spring 2022
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Knight moves: The challenges facing Keir Starmer as Labour leader, James O'Brien, Times Literary Supplement, 09.07.21
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PUPPET MASTERS, LOST GOLDEN AGES – the myths that hold Labour back, The Bunker podcast, with Nick Cohen, July 2021
'The problems with Labour mythology', Anthony Broxton, The Critic, 20.5.21
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'Labour can’t read the writing on the wall', Trevor Phillips, The Times, 17.5.21
'Against their interests' - an analysis following the Hartlepool by-election, Medium, 07.03.21
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Labour and the Dark Knight: why the left should choose moral pluralism over purity, email exchange between Chris Clarke and Neal Lawson, Prospect, 18.03.21
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The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master with Chris Clarke, Mile End Institute Podcast, Tim Bale, 27.01.21
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In Brief: A Year With Swollen Appendices; The Octopus Man; The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master – reviews, Alexander Larman, The Observer, 24.01.21
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Onwards and Upwards, Fabian Society, Chris Clarke, 8.1.21
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'Rule one for sensible politicians: don’t call yourself a centrist', Times Red Box, Chris Clarke, 10.12.20​
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'Pluralism, Not Populism' - Chris Clarke for The Progressive Britain Podcast, December 2020
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'Labour should learn from Biden’s refusal to condemn opponents', LabourList, Chris Clarke, 10.11.20
'Anti-Semitism, morality and left populism', Renewal Journal, Chris Clarke, 06.11.20
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The Dark Knight and The Puppet Master with Chris Clarke, Debated Podcast, November 2020.
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'Mini-reviews of three Labour books worth reading', The Guardian, Andrew Sparrow, 20.09.20
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'Warring Fictions', Interview with Emma Burnell for House of Comments Podcast, 13.04.20
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'Believe it or not, Keir Starmer may find it surprisingly easy to unite the Labour Party', The Independent, John Rentoul, 16.02.20
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'The Labour leadership election only matters if the party breaks with the past', Martin Kettle, Guardian, 06.02.20
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'Labour won’t end anti-Semitism until we ditch Puppet-Master ideas about politics', Medium, 06.02.20
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Warring Fictions with Chris Clarke, Debated Podcast, February 2020.
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'Why does Labour never know what it’s got till it’s (long) gone?' Medium, 21.01.20
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'Why Labour's leadership election is not a battle of left and right', New Statesman, Chris Clarke, 13.01.20
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Who can fix the problem of polarisation within the British Labour Party? RSA podcast, 14.1.20
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Losing Sides, Fabian Society, January 2020
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How do we stop the ‘Long Road Back to Power’ becoming Groundhog Day? Progress Online, 7.1.20
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'The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master – self-destructive political myths', Radix, Professor Colin Talbot and Chris Clarke, 03.01.20
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'Labour's Corbynite left are lost on Fantasy Island'(£), The Times, David Aaronovitch, 19.12.19
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‘Where now for Change UK?', Medium, 31.5.19
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A moral maze, Fabian Review, Spring Edition, 2019
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'Populism, pluralism and the politically homeless', Big Tent Ideas podcast, March 2019
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‘Two-tiers good, four-tiers bad’ - how we prevent a Brexit culture war, Medium, 15.1.19
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Radicals against populism, Progress Online, 7.1.19
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What the row over Kate Osamor’s council house tells us about Corbynism, Red Roar, 21.12.18
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Labour’s Brexit Fudge Is Rooted In Decline Narratives, Huff Post, 12.12.18
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I don’t believe we live in a dictatorship. Can I still be a socialist? Left Foot Forward, 27.11.18