Category: politics

Political Fairytale

Why is centrism failing so badly? Because at its heart is a mistaken idea of how politics works.

Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right.

There’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich.

The Green Party is becoming everything you might have wanted Labour to be.

Peter Mandelson was not one bad apple: he was brought in repeatedly by governments to do their dirty work.

Here is the real reason why Keir Starmer’s government refuses to let us have a fair electoral system.

The grim truth is that almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest.

There’s an urgent need to replace our total mess with a codified constitution.

The election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader could be the moment our political drought begins to break.

How “humour” opens the door to far right politics.

Keir Starmer has accidentally given us four years in which to build a new political system. We should seize the chance.

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.