Josh White / 09 May 2022
Dead Centre
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
Jeremy Corbyn
Josh White / 25 Apr 2022
Ex-Social Democrats
Today’s New Statesman
Getting off the tube at Blackfriars, you could walk through the backstreets of Fleet Street without seeing the office of the oldest progressive magazine in Britain. It’s easily done.(...)
Josh White / 11 Apr 2022
Selling the News
Losing Channel 4 to the Spivs
Sitting in front of the TV waiting for the news to come on, with a plate of food on your lap. This was a common experience once upon a time.(...)
John Foster / 25 Mar 2022
Diversity Without Nationalism
Heaven in Disorder, by Slavoj Žižek
One is always a bit apprehensive when cracking the latest publication by the eminent Slovenian curmudgeon Slavoj Žižek.(...)
John Foster / 11 Mar 2022
Looking for a New Left
The End of the End of History, by Hochuli, Hoare and Cunliffe
It’s fun to laugh at Francis Fukuyama. It’s even more fun to laugh at the legions of people who misinterpreted his 1992 blockbuster, The End of History and the Last Man.(...)
Josh White / 19 Jul 2021
Anti-Tory Times
The Left Turn Ahead Report
The United Kingdom is transitioning to a different kind of capitalism. (...)
John Foster / 02 Apr 2021
The End of the Left
The Last Neoliberal, by Bruno Amable and Stefano Palombrini
There is a case to be made that the left is dead. (...)
Josh White / 01 Mar 2021
The Tony Blair Cargo Cult
Keir Starmer as a Meme
A white man stepped foot onto the shores of a remote beautiful island in the South Pacific. His name was John Frum.(...)
Josh White / 14 Dec 2020
Fantasy Island
The Brexit Condition
The UK is heading for a Brexit dreamscape amid talk of deploying the navy to "defend our fish".(...)
Josh White / 02 Nov 2020
Life After Labour
Antisemitism Report Conclusions
Just six months into the Starmer era, the Labour Party has cleansed its shadow cabinet of its most left-wing politicians and suspended Jeremy Corbyn. So it should be clear to everyone what Keir Starmer is really about.(...)