“This isn’t their Republican party anymore. This is Donald Trump’s Republican party!” The surprisingly rare veracity inherent in this statement pronounced by Donald Trump Junior at the political rally prior to the storming of the Capitol, signifies quite spectacularly how far from the intended apolitical outcome the consequences of the neoliberal project have led. In theContinue reading “From Thatcherism to Trump: The failure of neoliberal philosophy to extinguish the political.”
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Beware: Austerity Zombies Lurk in the Shadow of the Coronavirus Crisis
Arrrgghhh ……….. like a horror film when the character you thought would make it suddenly snuffs it early on, and then in quick succession another victim is claimed before you’ve had a chance to recover from the first; a double shock. With much the same inevitability as a classic horror film’s plot, so calls forContinue reading “Beware: Austerity Zombies Lurk in the Shadow of the Coronavirus Crisis”
The Ironic Mr Cummings
As H.P. Lovecraft once observed: “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.” And so it is that in the week the Tory government finally made us world leaders….in death, as we took the unenviable title as the country with the highest death rates per capita in the world, our collective horror has indeedContinue reading “The Ironic Mr Cummings”
It’s Time Centrists Found Their Compass
Was it Albert Einstein who said the definition of insanity was repeating the same thing over but expecting a different outcome? If so, I assume progressive centrists aren’t big fans of relativity. I’m being facetious of course, but I was drawn to Einstein’s definition whilst pondering the rather galling spectacle of recent political discourse in whichContinue reading “It’s Time Centrists Found Their Compass”
From the Outside Looking In 