I don’t agree with Finkelstein’s full thesis posted above. Starmer is left-wing, yes, but no more left wing than Miliband or, say, John Smith. I don’t think he was quite content with Corbyn, either. … (View Post)

There’s nothing here that is not left wing and much here that is. (View Post)

So many people have their own version of this, it’s astonishing. And yet surveys show that something like 5/6 pensioners believe that the under 65s just need to stop eating avocado. (View Post)

Precisely this. Look, I grew up in the 80s and 90s when New Zealand was in the very avant-garde of monetarism, privatisation and deregulation. I know all the reasons it happened, what it was reacting… (View Post)

The baby is dead. The bath water is poisonous. (View Post)