My own special relationship with North America
Also this week: Meeting progressive peers in Montreal, and bridging divides in football and politics.
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The progressive dilemma
The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain and…
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The left has an England problem
A nation steeped in culture cannot be reduced to statistics and pop psychology.
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Where is the left’s New Deal?
Instead of accepting the right-wing economic orthodoxy, we should implement the radical reforms that rebuilt postwar UK and US.
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Ukraine must go to war with itself
Now is the time to confront oligarchs and cultural conservatives, and ask what sort of country Ukraine will become.
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Does Labour’s soft left have a future?
In the face of Starmer’s attacks, we can either slink off into political isolation or work together to reclaim our…
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Neal Lawson: the Labour Party is a bully
The director of Compass speaks out against his potential expulsion.
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Why the left is still losing
The right is at once more interested in ideas and ruthlessly pragmatic than its opposing wing.
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Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline
The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.
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