Michael Newman is an emeritus professor at London Metropolitan University and author of "Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left"

It is a strange to read words taken from a biography you have written, but distorted as the basis of a vicious and offensive attack on its subject. This has been my experience since the publication of the ludicrous article by Geoffrey Levy in the Daily Mail on Saturday describing Ralph Miliband, Ed Miliband's father, as "the man who hated Britain".

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