The failure to adapt to new realities is not an accident. It’s the design.
Category: politics
The Saboteurs
If the UK government had set out to undermine and degrade our country, it couldn’t have done a better job.
Spirited Away
How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy theories.
How to Rule Forever
Do new technologies make autocrats impossible to overthrow?
Breaking Point
The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome.
Monster Makers
Unless Biden fights big money, he could pave the way for someone even worse than Trump.
The State of It
The government retreats for billionaires, while smashing down our doors.
Democratic Revolution
Full-scale participatory democracy would change everything. It has the same revolutionary potential as the universal franchise and women’s suffrage.
For Your Eyes Only
The opaque and secretive networks on which Boris Johnson builds his power.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad?
Rings of Power
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term.
The Roots of Fascism
When political leaders brazenly flout the law, we are heading towards a very dark place.
Rewilding Politics
It’s not just governments we need to change, but the entire, top-down, 19th Century political system. And we can start, right now, in our towns and cities.
Resist and Rebuild
Don’t despair: we will fight back, and, eventually, return stronger than before.
Platform for the Planet
The political parties have finally woken up to the environmental crisis. But the media hasn’t
Power Failure
The current Labour Party has a weak instinct for power. This undermines its chances, but it reflects some rare and important traits.
Popularity Contest
If politicians genuinely respected “the people’s will”, they would let us express it between elections.
Start Making Sense
By understanding the psychological buttons they’re pressing, we can stop demagogues from destroying our democracy.
Our Brezhnev Moment
Neoliberalism has stalled, so the fanatics in government are using Brexit to revive it.
Killer Clowns
Why are so many nations now led by extravagant buffoons? Because the nature of capitalism has changed.