The general view in the UK media, indeed most European media I think, is that it's still all a bit of a joke. But in fact it isn't. Beyond the situation of moving the investigation of the p… (View Post)

Brown was doing nothing more than accommodating the Tories' starry-eyed techno-financial futurism that began in 1986. None of these ideas had their origins in the Labour tradition, and all those… (View Post)

And which was ofcourse entirely to do with prevailing Conservative intellectual currents of 20 years standing. Brown's hollow shell had nothing to do with, and was not of a piece with, any Labou… (View Post)

Quite. And the banks were too big to fail and the entire global financial sector so outsize partly because the lines of social responsibility had long been cut by London and New York. (View Post)

This was in exactly in the era that our Brexiter hero, Daniel Hannan, and an influential voice in the party wrote an article suggesting that Britain should adopt an even lighter-touch "Icelandic… (View Post)