‘Losing Our Country’: Reform crash in Manchester
Arrogance cost Reform the Gorton and Denton by-election; the same vice hurt Labour too. The contest took place after Labour MP Andrew Gwynne resigned.
Kind of Blue: A Short History of Tory Decline
What has degraded a lineage of once consummate state managers and political operators into, to borrow Dominic Cummings’ description of the Johnson cabinet, a parade of ‘fuck pigs and morons’?
The Medical Law of Accumulation: Putting the Sick on the Line
Thatcher attentively reproduced many a theme from the pioneering monetarist and racist Enoch Powell, racialising the experience of inner-city industrial decline as a problem of disobedient foreign cultures.
The True Infinite and the Republic of Virtue
Marxists have no trouble speaking about what they love. But they do need to learn how to listen: to themselves, and, more importantly, to the reply of their beloved.