It's been noted how the Burnham campaign is being run out of a social club - that shouldn't feel countercultural.
Labour needs to rediscover is social soul to both govern and sustain change in a hyperpolitical period. Fortunately there is a chance to do that, and a zeitgeist to build on.
It's been noted how the Burnham campaign is being run out of a social club - that shouldn't feel countercultural.
Labour needs to rediscover is social soul to both govern and sustain change in a hyperpolitical period. Fortunately there is a chance to do that, and a zeitgeist to build on.
Unmoored and blinded such that they cannot see genuinely conservative wins.
Voice of actual ordinary people is not heard in all this because the info environment is dominated by the online right and that feeds into traditional media who should do better. We'd be better off in many ways if more people with common sense views (e.g. pogroms are bad) had their own platforms.
The fact Big John has proven to be one of the few effective anti-racist messengers is telling, and shows a failure to cultivate more people like him.
Of course, this should happen alongside action against social media companies and foreign agitators, and a very strong law and order response.
3 years today ⚒️
There’s a lot of vilification of Whitechapel by the online right ‘yookay’ crowd, but they have missed how Scrutonian principles are being applied to a lot of the shop frontage and building refurb and design along Whitechapel Rd and the Mile End Rd.
Patrick Maguire's column rightly identifies that Labour politics is strongest when it is embedded in associational life. The task is for that to be normal, not novel, for civic life to be supported and renewed in policy and practice.
The fact it's the most-read story also suggests that there is an enthusiasm for this among the public. Even right-leaning voters don't want to hear some Republican gargoyle slagging off their country, and there are rewards for a government that politely but firmly tells them to wind it in.