Left-Wing Politics
How British politics is being redefined
The temperamental divide in British politics has been inverted
Zack Polanski is peddling empty promises
There is nothing bold or hopeful about failed policies and wilful ignorance
Jason Hickel doesn’t understand economics
His work is a useful reminder not to stray too far from what we know
The left don’t need Big John
Political movements embarrass themselves by trying to recruit unlikely spokespeople
The British left has descended into madness
Whilst the national media focus on Reform, the left is seeing its own foment
Why on Earth do people listen to “The Rest Is Politics”?
Left-leaning bourgeois Brits need their centrist comfort blanket
Jeremy Corbyn could change British politics again
“Your Party” is bad news for Keir Starmer
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
How the anti-woke won
The left should have listened to its own dissidents
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down