I joined James Butler and Patrick Maguire to discuss the transition of power in British politics, for the LRB On Politics Podcast.
Tag: politics
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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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‘Why the right wins online’
I discussed the success of the Right online for the New Economics Foundation podcast, following my London Review of Books article about Farageist Tiktok
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‘Facial recognitions’
A new essay in The Ideas Letter on how the politics of the face has grown more fractious, in context of smartphones, face-covering bans, facial recognition algorithms, ICE agents and protest culture.
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‘A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0’
The Guardian has published an edited version of my N+1 essay on stupidity and Trumpism as a Long Read.
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‘TV meets fruit machine’
An essay in London Review of Books on ‘Faragist TikTok’, which explores the discontents of the algorithmic public sphere.
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‘Bonfire of the bureaucrats’
I have written the cover story for this week’s New Statesman, an essay on the new wave of anti-bureaucratic sentiment sweeping states around the world.
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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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‘The business-lounge intellectual’
Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
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LRB Winter Lecture – 10th February
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‘If Boris Johnson were a stock, canny investors would be looking to unload’
New column for The Guardian, on the “animal spirits” that drove up Johnson’s value, and could quickly abandon him.
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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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Review of Brexitland
I reviewed Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford’s Brexitland, on the rise of Remain/Leave identities, for the London Review of Books.
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