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James Schneider is a socialist strategist. He served as Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's spokesperson and head of strategic communications from 2016-2020. Before that he co-founded Momentum and was an ...

Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He authored ...

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