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.

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.

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.

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.

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.