Alex Nunns is a writer, editor and activist. He worked as Jeremy Corbyn’s speechwriter from 2018-20. His book, The Candidate won the 2017 Bread and Roses Award. Tweets from Tahrir, which he co-edited, was the first book to use content from Twitter as the basis for a historical narrative. As a journalist he has written for Le Monde Diplomatique and Red Pepper, among others.

THE CANDIDATE Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power (2nd Edition) Alex Nunns In September of 2015 an earthquake shook British politics to its foundations. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn’t just win the leadership contest, he crushed his opponents, obtaining 60% of the vote. The establishment was aghast. More

TWEETS FROM TAHRIR Egypt’s revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, Editors “Without the new media the Egyptian Revolution could not have happened in the way that it did…. The turning moment had come – but it was the instant and wide-spread nature of the new media that made it possible to recognise the moment and to push it into such an effective manifestation.” —Ahdaf Soueif, from the foreword. More