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“The narration in The Candidate has the quality of being told from a front-row seat in this drama… Nunns’ skilled narration reads like a novel” – THE CANDIDATE reviewed in Social Movement Studies

Monday, June 4th, 2018

In his work on ‘post-democracy,’ political sociologist Colin Crouch provides a heuristic image
with which to understand an ideal democratic party. At the centre of this image is the party’s
leadership and its closest advisers, around which in concentric circles follow ‘parliamentary
representatives; then active members [including local government and paid staff]; next,
ordinary members [. . .], then supporters, or loyal voters [. . .]; finally, the largest circle of all,
the wider target audience, which the party seeks to persuade to vote for it.’

Read the full review here.

ALEX NUNNS discusses the state of the British Labour Party at Politics Theory Other

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

This week I’m joined by Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power to discuss the Labour Party after the local elections, the balance of power within the PLP, and the prospects for a new centrist party.

Listen to the full interview here.

The 2017 General Election – How could they all be so wrong?- an excerpt from THE CANDIDATE at Ceasefire

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

Although Labour did not win the June 2017 general election, its result was astonishing. The party increased its share of the vote by 9.5 points, the biggest gain between elections since 1945 — all the more impressive as it had only been two years since voters last went to the polls. Jeremy Corbyn became the only Labour leader other than Tony Blair to break the 40 per cent barrier since 1970. A dizzying 12.9 million people voted for the party. Apart from the 1997 landslide, Labour had not won so many votes since 1966.

Instead of losing seats, Labour gained a net 30 (the first time the party had added to its tally since 1997), while the Tories lost 13 along with their overall majority. The resulting hung parliament — with the Conservatives occupying 317 seats and Labour 262 — gave Corbyn’s party great political clout in the House of Commons, reflected in the immediate dropping of noxious parts of the Conservative manifesto such as grammar schools and a vote on fox hunting.

Read the full excerpt here.

Oh Jeremy Corbyn! The Origins of a Political Chant – an extract from THE CANDIDATE in The Quietus

Monday, April 9th, 2018

What could possibly go wrong? A 67-year old politician going on stage at a Libertines gig… in front of 20,000 young people… on a Saturday night in a tough Northern town… in the middle of a general election.

It is 20 May 2017, just over a month since Theresa May shocked the political world by calling a snap election. There are 19 days until polling day. Jeremy Corbyn is in the Wirral. He has just addressed a rally of thousands of Labour supporters on the beach in West Kirby. In nearby Prenton Park stadium, the home of Birkenhead’s Tranmere Rovers Football Club, a music festival is underway. Rumours are buzzing around social media that Corbyn is going to appear with the headliners. “If Corbyn comes out with the Libertines then this could possibly be the best gig ever,” tweets one attendee. “Gonna vote Tory if Jeremy Corbyn comes out with Libertines. Not even joking,” posts another.

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Alex Nunns, author of THE CANDIDATE discusses the improbable rise of the Corbyn movement at the A Up Let’s Talk podcast

Monday, March 19th, 2018

This week JJ was joined by award winning author Alex Nunns to talk about his book The Candidate: JEREMY CORBYN’S IMPROBABLE PATH TO POWER. We also discuss a range of issues including the Labour Party (pre Corbyn) and the events that made it possible for him to run for Labour leader. We also discuss the infamous coup, media bias & the general election.

Listen to the full interview here.

“The excitement; the dynamism; the heady, disorienting feeling of the impossible becoming possible.”: Read an extract from THE CANDIDATE at New Socialist

Monday, March 19th, 2018

It was the movement that brought the magic to the Corbyn campaign. Although a process was already underway within the Labour membership, what gave the Corbyn phenomenon its distinctive character was the participation of people from outside the party. It was the sense that Jeremy Corbyn was at the head of a broad movement that made his leadership bid so extraordinary. The excitement; the dynamism; the heady, disorienting feeling of the impossible becoming possible—these were the trappings of movement politics.

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“ It will either annoy or delight you… but it certainly will not bore.”: Progress review THE CANDIDATE

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

All election accounts suffer from the same problem: it is extremely difficult to separate the factors that lead us to cast our votes. Any attempt to explain the results of elections therefore end up focusing heavily on correlation rather than causation: the winning side did x and they won, so x must have led to the victory.

In 2017, the ‘winning’ side did not win per se, but as the result of last year’s general election was so contrary to expectations, it was only a matter of time before Corbyn’s team told their victor’s story.

Read the full review here.

ALEX NUNNS author of THE CANDIDATE discusses the lows and highs of the Corbyn movement at Reel Politik

Tuesday, March 6th, 2018

Listen to Alex Nunns on the pivotal moments in Corbyn’s leadership, from the campaign that rocketed him to the head of his party on a tide of anti-austerity anger and socialist hope back in 2015, to his miraculous rescue of a political project that only a year ago seemed helplessly on the brink of ruin.

Listen to the conversation here.

ALEX NUNNS author of THE CANDIDATE on the media’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn at Media Democracy

Tuesday, March 6th, 2018

Listen to Alex Nunns chatting with the hosts of Media Democracy about the media’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn and the Corbyn movements use of social media to circumvent traditional media channels.

Listen to the conversation here.

ALEX NUNNS, author of THE CANDIDATE, debates anti-Corbyn smears on BBC Daily Politics

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

Alex Nunns takes on Trevor Kavanagh over the Sun’s “Czech spy” smear campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Listen to the full debate on BBC.

“Make the socialist arguments.” ALEX NUNNS is interviewed in The Clarion

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

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THE CANDIDATE is cited by The Canary regarding media coverage of Jeremy Corbyn

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

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“The Labour conference that the media failed to report.” ALEX NUNNS at Red Pepper

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017

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THE CANDIDATE is cited in the Dublin Review of Books

Monday, September 11th, 2017

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Colin Robinson discusses THE CANDIDATE on Law and Disorder

Thursday, July 6th, 2017

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Theresa May has given Jeremy Corbyn a boost no-one saw coming, says ALEX NUNNS at The Canary

Monday, July 3rd, 2017

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The Bookseller covers the winners of this year’s awards from the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, including ALEX NUNNS

Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

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THE CANDIDATE wins the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing

Monday, June 26th, 2017

Cogent, optimistic, well-written and thoroughly researched, this hugely topical book records with great intimacy and insight an historical moment whose lessons mustn’t be forgotten, while also exposing the persistent forces which continue to work against social change.

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“We have to seize this moment.” ALEX NUNNS is interviewed at Morning Star

Monday, June 26th, 2017

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“A Labour Party that actually challenges entrenched power and governs for the broad mass of the people will face significant resistance.” ALEX NUNNS on Labour leadership at Jacobin

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

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“Conservatives are now terrified of having another election because they believe that Corbyn would win it.” ALEX NUNNS is interviewed at Counterfire

Wednesday, June 21st, 2017

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“Two years ago today Jeremy Corbyn made it onto the Labour leadership ballot — with seconds to spare.” An excerpt from THE CANDIDATE at Jacobin

Thursday, June 15th, 2017

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“An enlightening and invigorating read.” THE CANDIDATE: JEREMY CORBYN’S IMPROBABLE PATH TO POWER reviewed at Ten Million Hardbacks

Tuesday, June 13th, 2017

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ALEX NUNNS interviewed on the BBC World Service on the shock UK general election results

Tuesday, June 13th, 2017

Listen to the full interview here (after 9 minutes).

ALEX NUNNS appears in The Canary after catching an incident of media bias against Jeremy Corbyn

Monday, June 5th, 2017

Tim Shipman is political editor of The Sunday Times. He has made his views on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn well known. And mostly, they fall within the parameters of simple political disagreement. But his latest intervention moves beyond that. In the tweet, Shipman calls Corbyn a “terrorist loving commie”, and claims he’s “never seen anyone less suited to high office.”

Full article here.

Alex Nunns’ THE CANDIDATE shortlisted for the 2017 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

From more than 50 books in consideration Alex Nunns’ The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power has made the shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017.

The winner will be announced by guest judges Joan Anim-Addo, Vera Chok and Owen Hatherley at a ceremony at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 24th June 2017.

“In the following weeks, as public excitement began to build behind Corbyn… the Guardian’s response, save for the occasional mention, was a virtual blackout.” ALEX NUNNS in Novara Media on coverage of Jeremy Corbyn in The Guardian

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

A selection of the headlines from the Guardian website’s front page on 22 and 23 July gives a sense of the almost hysterical tone that took hold: “Blair urges Labour not to wrap itself in a Jeremy Corbyn comfort blanket”; “Think before you vote for Jeremy Corbyn”; “Labour can come back from the brink, but it seems to lack the will to do so”; “Blair: I wouldn’t want to win on an old fashioned leftist platform.” On these two panic-stricken days alone, the Guardian website carried opinion pieces hostile to Corbyn from Anne Perkins, Suzanne Moore, Polly Toynbee, Tim Bale, Martin Kettle, Michael White, Anne Perkins (again), and Anne Perkins (yet again). There was not a single pro-Corbyn column.

Read it at Novara Media.

“When Labour talks about issues which affect everybody, like education and health, that’s historically where it’s strong… But a constitutional issue like Brexit drives wedges into the party’s fissures.” ALEX NUNNS in Vice

Thursday, April 13th, 2017

“When Labour talks about issues which affect everybody, like education and health, that’s historically where it’s strong… But a constitutional issue like Brexit drives wedges into the party’s fissures. It’s extremely difficult to charter a path through the two-thirds of Labour voters who voted Remain and the third who voted Leave because they’re not evenly distributed among the party’s seats.”

Read more here.

“An entertaining account of how the far left seized control of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition.” THE CANDIDATE in The Scottish Review of Books

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

“The crisis of western social democracy has churned up new and unexpected forms of anti-establishment populism. The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, by Alex Nunns, is a pulpy, entertaining account of how the far left seized control of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition.”

Read the full review here.

“Corbyn withstood parliamentary blackmail.” ALEX NUNNS in TNS

Monday, February 13th, 2017

Jeremy Corbin’s unexpected rise to lead the Labour party in 2015 has been the subject of many rushed books. While Rosa Prince’s Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup was an account of “ex-girlfriends, [and] the state of his flat” Richard Seymour’s Corbyn: The Strange Birth of Radical Politics is a more serious account of the Corbyn phenomenon. Alex Nunns’ book The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power is a much more detailed study of the Corbyn-mania and the forces that propelled it into being.
The book maps, in great detail, how Corbyn became the unlikely candidate and how his equally improbable rise was organised and managed against the powerful trio of the hostile media, the parliamentary labour party and the Labour party machine. The Candidate locates the rise of Corbyn in a number of related developments — the election of Ed Miliband as the leader of the Labour party was the first sign of a coming rupture with the new Labour. And it was this that paved the way for Corbyn’s rise.

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