Oliver Eagleton
Oliver Eagleton is managing editor at Phenomenal World
February 2026
‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning
Oliver EagletonIn the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right, says Oliver Eagleton, managing editor of Phenomenal World
November 2025
Rachel Reeves’s housing scandal was a small administrative error, but a big political mistake
Oliver EagletonAt a time of austerity, and with Labour’s housing policies needing years to take effect, the public doesn’t want to hear about ministers with multiple homes, says Oliver Eagleton, managing editor of Phenomenal World
