The 4th July 2024 was a special night for me. The poor coverage aside (the BBC really were missing Dimbleby, weren’t they?), it was a wonderful spectacle for a 33-year-old…
24 Mar, 2025
Political Economy
08 Jul, 2024
We Won As One
We have completed an analysis of the election results in a different post. This post is specifically about what our campaign achieved. To read a full analysis of the data…
20 Mar, 2024
Scotland’s centre-left politics and the dynamics of the Labour-SNP divide
UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…
20 Dec, 2022
The Ideology problem and how Proportional Representation can fix this
It is unlikely that you will find anyone who disagrees that the premiership of Liz Truss was a turbulent affair. As a lived experience, it was a mess bereft of…
24 Oct, 2022
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn, A new book by Michael Chessum, charts the revival of left politics…
19 Oct, 2022
Clive Lewis MP: From 2022 Labour Party Conference
This is a transcription of a speech Clive Lewis MP gave on the 26th September 2022 at the Win As One event at Labour Party Conference. You can watch a…
23 Sep, 2022
Liz Truss is returning to the fairytale economics of the 1980s
Excessive Inequality and wealth redistribution to the rich have wrecked the economy. 'Trussonomics' won't help. Our new prime minister has already set out her primary economic principles. Although a £90bn…
07 Sep, 2022
“Entropy, entropy, they’ve all got into entropy”
I'm writing this on my first day back at work after a fortnight of rest and truly revitalising food for the soul, and I know that I am immensely privileged…
30 Aug, 2022
The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Britain and America 1980-2020
In The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Britain and America 1980-2020 I consider whether there is any overarching explanation for the main political, economic and social changes in the major Anglophone countries over the…
05 Aug, 2022
The story of Tory Britain as we have known it is over. Time for Labour to get radical
Some things in life remain constant, but increasingly British politics are being turned upside down. The old assumptions no longer hold and the conventions and rules which used to define…
07 Apr, 2022
Book Review “Keystroke Capitalism: How Banks Create Money for the Few” by Aaron Sahr
Aaron Sahr offers a rich discourse on the huge growth of financial markets in modern economies and the implication for inequality. We face a ‘trinity of growing private wealth, mounting…
23 Jul, 2020
Modern slavery: a prism into our world
“Although the Covid-19 crisis has caused grim new problems for Leicester’s garment workers, the exploitation detailed in the report is not new. Concerns about working conditions and illegally low pay…