How Peter Mandelson became a monster

Towards the end of A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud insists that, in order to uphold artistic integrity, one must be “absolutely modern”. True creativity, the poet insists, is the result of faithful alignment with the zeitgeist.  Few political figures personified that better than Peter Mandelson. Grandson of Herbert Morrison, Labour’s outstanding machine politician of the last century, he visited…

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