This interview with Ash Sarkar covers lots of things, well beyond Elon Musk: the nature of the current conjuncture, crisis or ‘vibeshift’; the threat of the Trump presidency and authoritarianism; the state of neoliberalism; the challenges and contradictions confronting the Labour government; and more.
Interview with Politics Theory Other podcast
I discussed Labour’s economic policy agenda on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
LRB Podcast on Labour’s economic policy
I discussed my recent London Review of Books essay, reflecting on Labour’s economic plans, with the LRB podcast.
‘A crisis in credibility’
Article in London Review of Books on Labour’s economic dilemmas and the recent budget.
‘Eye-watering taxes are a problem for the Tories – and an even bigger one for Labour’
Comment piece in The Guardian on the new fiscal settlement, in which tax rises have become unmoored from any palpable social progress.
What was Corbynism?
Blogpost at PERC, seeking to relocate Corbynism in the political and economic context that gave rise to it: Osbornite austerity.
Who will go back to work?
Blogpost on the class divisions emerging from the lock-down, published by the Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre.
‘A startlingly radical manifesto’
I was asked to review the Labour manifesto for The Guardian Review, alongside other writers on the other manifestos.
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