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This collective mis-reading of the recent past has left Labour psychologically ill-equipped to tackle so many of our current problems, most of which are the unintended consequence, or overshoots, of centre-left priorities established in the New Labour era: unsustainable welfare/disability spending, erosion of work ethic, over-regulation of business... See more
David Goodhart • "I've Never Known a More Right-Wing Britain"
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
The reality of British politics is that there is a high degree of consensus across the two main parties on everything from the need to control immigration more effectively, to slashing regulation in order to build more houses and boost economic growth, to reining in welfare spending and promoting more public and private investment. Yet... See more
David Goodhart • "I've Never Known a More Right-Wing Britain"
In the three or four decades that millennials like me have been alive, young people have been reckoning with the brutal truth that democracy works for the few, not the many. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, quality of life declined for the most of us while the billionaires got richer. At the same time, politicians have been... See more
Alec Leach • The invisible philosophy that’s destroying the world
At the heart of this failure is the way mainstream parties conceived and carried out the project of globalization over the past four decades.
Michael J. Sandel • The Tyranny of Merit
This is simply brilliant - on why technocracy fails, and liberals can't connect https://t.co/I1rt2gKKqK
- When Trevor Phillips, the old Blair-era ethnic-policy guru, asserted that “the key aim of policy should not be zero immigration but orderly flow,” he was clearly stuck in the world of a generation ago, when opposition to immigration meant complaining about litter in ethnic neighborhoods—not today’s countrywide sense that that older generation