Category: politics

The Urge to Destroy

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.

Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.

Elon Musk threatens to do to democracy what he did to Twitter.

This is what you are voting for if you vote for Donald Trump.

The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics.

An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it?

The crucial green policies missing from Labour’s manifesto.

The Greens are the only party with a chance of winning seats that is not beholden to oligarchic power.

An election is a device for maximising conflict and minimising democracy.

Secret funding, offshore donors, control by the ultra-rich. Sorry, but this is not democracy.

A remarkable political innovation in Devon could be the beginning of a new politics.

This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s.

The deep and crucial reason why Trump could win again.

A shadowy network of dark-money junktanks is delivering the same disastrous political package around the world.

How our lives came to be dominated by a few dozen plutocrats and their thousands of concierges.

The striking new plan to let voters reclaim democracy in a profoundly undemocratic system.