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 Mar, 2024
20 Mar, 2024
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
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, A new book by Michael Chessum, charts the revival of left politics…
19 Oct, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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…
15 Jul, 2020
The coronavirus crisis has made it heartbreakingly obvious that we are all connected. Boris Johnson himself, still recovering from the virus, felt the need to contradict Margaret Thatcher, saying ‘there…
18 Mar, 2019
There is no single silver bullet policy to create a Good Society – but basic income is the closest there is. It opens up some big questions: what is a good…