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12 November 2010

The Labour right strikes back

Me versus Tom Harris on Phil Woolas.

By Mehdi Hasan

My column in this week’s New Statesman revolves around Labour’s “Neanderthal tendency”, the “old-right tribalists”, who have rallied around the disgraced ex-MP Phil Woolas, rather than condemn his revolting behaviour and tactics. I see that Tom Harris, a proud and paid-up member of said “tendency”, has tried to “respond” to my column.

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