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‘Speaking Truth to Power’ — and to Jess Phillips
The aspirational centrist MP has released a self-promotional book about her heroes - REUBEN BARD-ROSENBERG is unsurprised to discover it whitewashes the role of the left and co-stars turncoat Tom Watson
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IT IS increasingly a convention, in Anglo-American politics, for those seeking high political office to put out a book.
Typically this will involve a treatise on the importance of fighting for things that are good and opposing things that are bad, a multitude of references to Martin Luther King, and recollections of things that the candidate’s mother used to say, (by which I mean homely catchphrases that are suspiciously well suited to the art of political autobiography, as opposed to stuff like: “Beto, stop pissing on the toilet seat”).
It is therefore unsurprising that, on the eve of the general election campaign, Jess Phillips has released a new work. I decided to take some time off from fixating on this fairly angsty election campaign to peruse Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on BS.
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