Can Labour Hold the Line? with Aaron Bastani
Michael and Aaron discuss whether Labour can resist pressure to back a People’s Vote, the meaning of party democracy, and whether the Tory right is ready to crumble.
View ArticleWhy Are Young Conservatives so Weird?
With the launch of Turning Point UK and their lightning quick descent into Hitler apologia, it begs the question, why are all these young conservative groups so weird?
View ArticleChris Grayling: Chaos Entity
This is Chris Grayling’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
View ArticleI’m Sorry, the BBC Has Now Lost It
From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly...
View ArticleThe Public, Not the Tory Party, Must Decide Britain’s Next Prime Minister
It now seems certain that Theresa May will resign as prime minister in the coming months, if not weeks. After less than three years in office, having lost a parliamentary majority in 2017 and survived...
View ArticlePrime Minister Boris Johnson Is the Ultimate Expression of Neoliberalism in...
Future historians will reflect on the events of this week as an extraordinary snapshot of the present moment. Today Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the Conservative party, by tomorrow he will...
View ArticleNo Such Thing As Society? Soon There May Be No Such Thing As the Conservative...
While the cliché dictates that a week is a long time in politics, even that fails to convey what is now happening to the administration of Boris Johnson. If you want to grasp the scale of the calamity...
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Homelessness Activists Occupy Tunnel, After MPs Ask for Gate to Stop Rough...
“There’s this big mess in there about Brexit, about this and that… and in the meantime the world is falling apart,” John said, gesturing towards parliament. John* sells the Big Issue in Westminster and...
View ArticleFuck Business, Fuck the Law, Fuck Parliament: The Descent of British...
Britain’s political history is replete with unexpected ironies. It was the Tories, not the Liberals, who first extended the franchise to working-class men in the 1860s. Six decades later it was a...
View ArticleHow the Long, Slow Death of Neoliberalism Sent the Conservative Party Into...
In a matter of weeks the Conservative party has lost its formerly flimsy grip on parliament, a historic six votes, any remaining confidence of EU negotiators, and the plot entirely. In more ordinary...
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