It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
Category: politics
How Capitalism Crashes Democracy
It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.
A New World
You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.
Motherfrackers
Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.
The Reversion
Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.
Emuskulation
Elon Musk threatens to do to democracy what he did to Twitter.
Don’t Do It!
This is what you are voting for if you vote for Donald Trump.
The Past Is Orange
The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics.
How to Change Everything
An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.
The Fight Against Oligarchy
Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it?
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
The crucial green policies missing from Labour’s manifesto.
Green Shoots
The Greens are the only party with a chance of winning seats that is not beholden to oligarchic power.
Pantomime Season
An election is a device for maximising conflict and minimising democracy.
The Underground Economy of Politics
Secret funding, offshore donors, control by the ultra-rich. Sorry, but this is not democracy.
Small Revolution
A remarkable political innovation in Devon could be the beginning of a new politics.
Hard Labour
This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s.
King of the Extrinsics
The deep and crucial reason why Trump could win again.
The Programme
A shadowy network of dark-money junktanks is delivering the same disastrous political package around the world.
Unspeakable
How our lives came to be dominated by a few dozen plutocrats and their thousands of concierges.
The Door Is That Way
The striking new plan to let voters reclaim democracy in a profoundly undemocratic system.