I think we're at the moment of a psychological crisis, in the sense of the psychology behind economics, as much as anything else. It had been largely expected that people would start to resume o… (View Post)

It can't be a retread of Blairism, because the social conditions have changed. Probably some innovative coalition of Corbynite radical edges, Wilsonian/Milibandite Labour-Centrism and aspiration… (View Post)

This absurdly self-absorbed struggle between trans activists and feminists is one of the most unedifying spectacles of the left of the last 40 years. No wonder the simplistic identity politics of the… (View Post)

Well, both the Civil Service reorganisation and the uncompromising Brexit stances seem driven by Cummings, not Johnson. He also seemed to retain ultimate control throughout the Barnard Castle affair,… (View Post)

It's strikingly reminiscent not just of the Soviet Union, but of the 1950s and 1960s Rand Corporation, data bureaucracy mindset that so many western liberals fought in the 1960s. (View Post)