Garvan Walshe

Garvan Walshe is a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was National and International Security Policy Adviser to the Conservative Party until 2008, where he contributed to the party’s statements of foreign and security policy "Unquiet World" and of criminal justice "Prisons with a Purpose."
Four Reasons for Corbyn’s Resistible Rise

Four Reasons for Corbyn’s Resistible Rise

August 20, 2015

In Britain, Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity isn’t just the temporary insanity that afflicts all parties after election defeat. If Jeremy Corbyn wins the race to lead the Labour Party, his campaign will provide a masterclass in political insurgency. Devoid of charisma, disrespected by his colleagues, given a mascot’s place on the ballot,...