Tag: Centrism
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Keir Starmer isn’t actually trying to win over the public
Keir Starmer is a terrible leader of the Labour party by any measure. His favourability ratings are poor, Labour still languishes well behind the Conservatives in polling despite abundant crises that are entirely precipitate from the Tory government’s actions, and in response to those crises — from coronavirus to fuel shortages — his response has […]
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The very real limits of Chris Leslie’s non-ideological ideology
If we’re to move entirely past the rather ideologically bankrupt centre-left consensus that emerged in the aftermath of 2008, we need to get into what the defining issues of that consensus are — its main tenets and its main flaws. A good case study of this is a pamphlet authored by former Shadow Chancellor and notable opponent […]
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Insults won’t get the Corbyn-supporting left to like you
In a previous post [no longer available], about it being moronic to have a pop at David Baddiel for something he didn’t write on a subject he’s fully entitled to write about, I wrote this: Corbyn has hardly, overall, had friendly media treatment — some of it for stupid reasons, some of it for entirely justifiable and […]
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Performative remainerism
I’m neither surprised or shocked that the People’s Vote campaign, which aims to secure a second referendum on whatever deal Theresa May can rustle up in concert with the EU, has another completely unproductive idea for getting this; a protest march. Protest marches, obviously, are incredibly good mechanisms for obtaining change, particularly when it comes […]
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No wonder the young are supporting unapologetic socialists— they’re fucked
NOTE FROM 2023: This article was written in early 2016. While I broadly still agree with its theory and conclusions, and stand by the overarching notion that a great deal of millennials and then-nascent zoomers are drastically underserved by most non-left candidates, I think I – in common with many others at the time and […]