My co-author Jo Phillips asks what constitutes a pamphlet. If Kevin Maguire is right and Why Vote? is a pamphlet rather than a book, it would make us Pamphleteers, which is the highest praise someone on the Left can bestow.
Among the great Pamphleteers have been Paine, Milton, Locke, Swift, Defoe (Daniel, not Jermain), and Addison. Should the names of Phillips and Seymour now be added to that estimable list? Modesty forbids us accepting that accolade.
But I am sure I speak for Jo, too, when I say that we are grateful Kevin thinks of us that way. Unless, of course, he is not of the Left at all and doesn’t understand what he is saying.