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How We Win: The Media

James Schneider

To win the 2020s, we must tell our story. At every opportunity, socialists must make clear, emotional and positive arguments to build support for our solutions, cut through government spin and disarm the culture wars. The final part of the series How We Win.

Opinion

So Long As Our Voting System is Rigged, the Tories Will Always Win Elections

James McAsh

It’s time for Labour to back fair votes.

Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato

What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.

Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? Richard Horton

A year after the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, with Britain enduring more than a 100,000 deaths since, a number of major questions remain unanswered. Why was the response of the UK among the worst in the world? How is it possible that the death toll of countries in Europe and North America […]

The Bastani Factor

Boris Johnson Ends ‘War on Woke?!’

On Wednesday, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Boris Johnson said there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being ‘woke’. Yet the signature of the Tories in recent years has been a ‘war on woke’, with MPs and media outriders attacking ideas of social and economic equality while using the term. […]

The Bastani Factor

“This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”

Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?

The Bastani Factor

Britain Is Now Fyre Festival

During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]

The Year in Review

At the turn of the decade nearly 12 months ago, some said that we were on the verge of entering a new Roaring ’20s. How prescient they turned out to be. One pandemic and a global economic freefall later, all the assumptions we started out with in January have turned to dust. In their place […]

Opinion

The Conservative Government is a Threat to National Security

David Wearing

Can Britain Become an ‘Innovation Superpower’ After Brexit? Aaron Bastani Meets David Edgerton

For Brexiteers Britain’s departure from the EU offers a shot at national renewal, with the country once more becoming a free trade and innovation superpower. But how likely is that, and are the Tories really serious about a break with the politics of the last 40 years? Aaron Bastani interviews Professor David Edgerton, author of […]

Long Read

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The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Opinion

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The Tories Could Feed Poor Children – They Just Don’t Want To

Francis Brewer

Taking the Red Pill with Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru joins James Butler to discuss his new novel, Red Pill. They talk surveillance capitalism, neofascism, violence and breakdown.

Opinion

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Labour’s New Leadership Must Not Abandon Palestine

Ben Jamal

Opinion

Who Will Pay for a Changing World? We’re Starting to See This Government’s Answer

James Meadway

Opinion

I Work in a Restaurant. I Didn’t Choose to Go Back on ‘Super Saturday’ – I Had To

Billie Walker

Opinion

Dominic Cummings is a Glorified Shitposter

Phil Jones

Opinion

The Tories Are Pushing People Back on to the Streets Because Rough Sleeping Serves a Political Purpose

Nye Jones

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