Comment piece published in The Guardian, on Boris Johnson’s dubious claims for a new ‘economic model’.
Tag: johnson
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Punishing the young serves Johnson’s politics of nostalgia
Guardian comment piece on derisory ‘catch-up’ funding and failure to recognise the sacrifices made by children.
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‘The secret of Johnson’s success lies in his break with Treasury dominance’
New column for The Guardian, on the long shadow of Gordon Brown, and how Johnson has escaped it.
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‘Johnson’s Tories are reaping the rewards of an economy built on house prices’
Comment piece for The Guardian, on the political and cultural consequences of Britain’s post-2008 model of capitalism, in which all the gains go to asset-owners.
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Review of The Assault on Truth
I reviewed Peter Oborne’s new book, The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism, for The Guardian.
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The history of The Spectator
A review essay, published at the New Left Review blog, on the history of The Spectator and what it tells us about Britain’s new political elite.
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The decline of the ‘state effect’
Comment piece on the crisis of trust in British government, originally drafted in October, now shared on the PERC blog.
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The rise of the rule-breakers
Article written for The New Statesman, on the problem of rules and behavioural governance in the face of coronavirus.
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The Great British battle
Essay published by Guardian Review, on the nationalist currents being stirred by the covid crisis.
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On the threat of the new Johnson government
Column written for The Guardian, on the Trojan Horse of Brexit and Boris, that contains as yet unknown policies and dangers.
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‘The punishment of democracy’
Blogpost on the hellish election campaign season, at Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre.
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‘How Boris Johnson and Brexit are Berlusconifying Britain’
Comment piece published in The Guardian, on the election and the end of liberalism.
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‘The Tories have lost their ideology. Now they are merely the party of resentment’
Column, coinciding with Conservative Party conference, published in The Guardian.
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‘How to be Prime Minister’
Article published in The London Review of Books, on Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Dominic Cummings.
William Davies 