Robert Philpot

Robert Philpot is the Contributing Editor for Progress Online. He also writes regularly on politics and history for Jewish Chronicle.

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Labour’s hypocrisy: freezing trade with Israel while selling jets to Erdoğan’s Turkey

This government prefers to arm a state that jails opponents, crushes unions and shelters Hamas rather than stand with a democratic ally fighting genocidal terrorists

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) after signing an $11 billion agreement for 20 Eurofighter jets, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on October 27, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Martin Luther King (centre) with his wife Coretta Scott King and colleagues during a civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery, March 1965. Bayard Rustin is third from left (William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The civil rights leader who would hate identity politics

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New start: Kindertransport children arriving in Britain in 1938

This is what really happened to the children of the Kindertransport

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Far from helping Jews, Franco’s regime was implacably hostile

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Obituary: Baron Lawson of Blaby

‘Thatcherite revolutionary’ who served as the first Jewish chancellor since Benjamin Disraeli

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April 11, 2023 16:53

Gone, not forgotten: Margaret Thatcher, our honorary Jew

The former PM, who died ten years ago this week, developed a visceral loathing of antisemitism that lasted all her life

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April 4, 2023 15:23

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, London, at the start of her third term in office. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

As she enters her final act, what will Dianne Feinstein's legacy be?

In recent years, Feinstein’s centrist politics has earned her sharp criticism from the left

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December 24, 2022 17:05

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 28: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) walks through the Senate subway on her way to a procedural vote on the Respect For Marriage Act at the U.S. Capitol on November 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Congress returns to Washington this week after a Thanksgiving break. Pending issues in the lame-duck session are government funding legislation, Respect For Marriage Act, National Defense Authorization Act and the changes to the Electoral Count Act. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Obituary: Lord Young of Graffham

Thatcher favourite and entrepreneur moved by the ‘Jewish ethos of practical charity’

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December 22, 2022 13:30

Trump is over, the Republicans need to find themselves a Wes Streeting.

Just a month after he announced he’s running again for the White House, his campaign appears to be coming off the rails

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December 16, 2022 16:26

An attendee wears a yarmulke in support of former US President Donald Trump as Trump speaks virtually at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19, 2022. (Photo by Wade Vandervort / AFP) (Photo by WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty Images)

DeSantis woos Jewish conservatives in Florida, but can he with the Kosher vote nationwide?

In Florida, which is home to over 650,000 Jews – America’s third largest Jewish electorate – there is naturally a strong political imperative to woo the “kosher vote”

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December 2, 2022 17:23