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.
‘Bonfire of the bureaucrats’
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.
Interview with Politics Theory Other podcast
I discussed Labour’s economic policy agenda on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
‘A crisis in credibility’
Article in London Review of Books on Labour’s economic dilemmas and the recent budget.
‘How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster’
Long Read for The Guardian, as part of a series on 14 years of Conservative rule, on the crisis facing universities and its political roots.
‘Fever dream’
Essay in London Review of Books reflecting on 14 years of Tory rule
‘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.
LRB podcast on inflation
I discussed my recent LRB article on inflation with Thomas Jones on the LRB podcast. Listen here.
‘Pain, no gain’
I’ve written for London Review of Books about the crisis of inflation and rising interest rates in the UK, and the wider ideological climate.
‘In Britain today, it seems your suffering only counts if you have a mortgage’
Comment piece in The Guardian on the hypocritical responses to Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget”
‘There’s a gaping hole at the centre of British politics where ideas used to be’
Article for The Guardian on how ideas, once considered integral to policy reform, are mysteriously absent from the current crisis
Extract from Unprecedented?
Unprecedented?: How Covid-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy is published this week, co-authored by me and three colleagues in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths. You can read an extract from the book in the new issue of The New Statesman here.
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.
The case for more progressive taxes
Piece written for Discover Society, on why the current mood of solidarity and empathy for the vulnerable should be converted into a new era of progressive fiscal policy.
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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