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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Does Josh Shapiro face the perfect opponent in Pennsylvania?

His Republican adversary is an "election denier" who is feted by QAnon

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Does Josh Shapiro face the perfect opponent in Pennsylvania?

The parable of Josh Mandel

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Will Biden’s Jewish chief of staff pay the price for his plummeting poll numbers?

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The forgotten Tory MP praised by Weizmann as a ‘precious friend’

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The populist US priest who set up an antisemitic militia

In one poll Father Charles Coughlin was found to be the second most powerful and popular man after President Roosevelt

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October 21, 2021 15:27

The populist US priest who set up an antisemitic militia

Jewish voters dump ‘Squad’ wannabe

Moderate Democrat wins primary

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August 12, 2021 16:26

Meet the new phenomenon in US politics — the Biden Republicans

“Biden Republicans”, Stan Greenberg argues, helped to deliver the president’s victory last November

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April 29, 2021 11:25

TOPSHOT - A woman waves a Joe Biden flag as people celebrate on Black Lives Matter plaza across from the White House in Washington, DC on November 7, 2020, after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. - Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, US media said November 7, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United States more divided than at any time in decades. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Far-right poster boy fighting fake news

On YouTube, Caolan Robertson frequently found himself recommending right-wing “alternative media” videos

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April 8, 2021 13:44

Where now for the Never Trumpers?

Predominantly Jewish conservatives may have helped contribute to the 8 million conservatives who voted for Joe Biden in the November election

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December 30, 2020 10:53

Communist who laid the ground for Thatcher’s revolution

The Iron Lady's third man, Sir Alfred Sherman, was a Jewish working-class former communist from London’s East End who had fought in the Spanish Civil War

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November 26, 2020 12:29

Communist who laid the ground for Thatcher’s revolution

The Jewish vote remains solidly Democrat

US conservatives have been forecasting for the past half-century that Jewish voters are about to turn Republican. This doesn't seem to be the case for November's election

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October 22, 2020 10:35

The Jewish vote remains solidly Democrat

He was an ordinary Nazi. And entirely responsible

Robert Griesinger’s name doesn’t appear in any histories of the Third Reich, but the lawyer who helped supervise the flow of Czech slave labour to feed Hitler’s war machine was one of the Nazi regime's 'enablers'

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October 5, 2020 16:52