Defending office is an entirely different proposition to challenging for it. In 2020, it was sufficient for the Democrats to simply be the ‘Not Trump Party’. A positive policy vision was not required, and the party was able to paper over internal divisions for the cause of fighting The Donald. In four years’ time however, it will be the Democrats under the microscope, not Trump.
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The Tory Party Has Lost its Way
I’m very much looking forward to the day we make contact with aliens. Once we get all of the boring stuff out of the way like ‘where have you come from’ and ‘what is the meaning of life’, we can finally ask the important question: What do you make of The Conservative Party?
Finance is our Secret Weapon against Climate Change
“It’s only the miracle of consumer capitalism that means you’re not lying in your own shit, dying at 43 with rotten teeth, and a little pill with a chicken on it is not going to change that. Now come on, fuck off” Mark Corrigan Mr Corrigan has a point. The invisible hand, despite its many detractors, hasContinue reading “Finance is our Secret Weapon against Climate Change”
Stop Following the Science!
“We are following the science.” This sounds reassuring, doesn’t it? An assurance that policy decisions are not being plucked from thin air (we promise!), but are rather the inevitable and definitive conclusion of empirical research. But dig a little deeper and any promises of impartial/apolitical policy fit somewhere on a spectrum ranging from pallidly quixoticContinue reading “Stop Following the Science!”
A Libertarian Case for UBI
From Van Parijs to Rutger Bregman, much has been made of the left’s association with UBI. But there is no reason why UBI should be the left’s intellectual property.
Confidence is Playing a Fraudulent Role in the Economy. Here’s How.
Confidence is not just a topic for sports columns or the therapist’s sofa. Confidence is the lifeblood of finance capitalism, and its symbiotic relationship with political electoral cycles can make or break political parties.
Have we learnt ANYTHING over the last decade?
Does anyone remember 2010? How different things were back then. A time when Donald Trump was that random TV presenter who appeared on Home Alone once. A time when a coalition government in Britain felt like political chaos. A time of those weird neon buttoned t-shirts from Topman that everyone used to wear (what wasContinue reading “Have we learnt ANYTHING over the last decade?”
It’s Time to Abandon the Left vs Right Divide
Brexiteer. Corbynista. Thatcherite. Labels are common in politics today. Traditionally they have served the purpose of allowing us to compare different politicians or political movements, while broadly defining ourselves in relation to them. But are the terms we use still of value? Perhaps more pertinently – are they actually distorting our democracy to the pointContinue reading “It’s Time to Abandon the Left vs Right Divide”
We are entering a new decade. How will we be viewed come the new Century?
When I was at school, I often wondered how I would have behaved in the different periods of history I was learning about. Had I been born in Germany a century previously, would I have joined the Schutzstaffel, or resisted the Nazi regime? What about being born in 19th Century America; would I have foughtContinue reading “We are entering a new decade. How will we be viewed come the new Century?”
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