An online early piece for the next issue of London Review of Books, on the economic constraints that will confront Andy Burnham as Prime Minister.
Tag: labour
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‘Tactical Voting’
Reflections on Britain’s Gorton & Denton by-election, and the fracturing of party politics in Britain, published in London Review of Books.
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Interview with Novara
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.
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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.
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‘A crisis in credibility’
Article in London Review of Books on Labour’s economic dilemmas and the recent budget.
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‘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.
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What was Corbynism?
Blogpost at PERC, seeking to relocate Corbynism in the political and economic context that gave rise to it: Osbornite austerity.
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Who will go back to work?
Blogpost on the class divisions emerging from the lock-down, published by the Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre.
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‘A startlingly radical manifesto’
I was asked to review the Labour manifesto for The Guardian Review, alongside other writers on the other manifestos.
William Davies 