This Was Thatcher’s Favourite Council. Now, It’s Pioneering Radical Housing Policy
Aydin Dikerdem
Wandsworth’s new Labour administration isn’t messing around.
Tag: thatcher
Were the 70s Really That Great?
Juliet Jacques
Nostalgia kills.
Union Visibility is Up, But Membership is Still Low. Why?
Tom Williams
Just a quarter of UK employees are union members.
Boris Johnson Could Have Been Another Thatcher
Aaron Bastani
Instead, he cocked up one of the greatest political opportunities in history.
Right to Buy 2.0 is an Unmitigated Disaster
Ell Folan
Thatcher's zombie isn't going to save us.
Why Do We Still Fetishise Homeownership?
Aidan Beatty
'Generation rent' want something we'll never have.
Liberalism Is in Trouble. Aaron Bastani Meets Francis Fukuyama
Few political thinkers exert such an influence that their work becomes synonymous with a historic era. Francis Fukuyama’s declaration of “the end of history” after the fall of the Soviet Union made him one. Aaron Bastani speaks to Fukuyama on the publication of his new book, Liberalism and its Discontents.
A Court Just Took Away the Right to Strike – But a Union is Fighting to Win It Back
Callum Cant
UVW is challenging an injunction that stops Great Ormond Street security guards from picketing the hospital.
Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is
Anna Cafolla
We don't all have ‘the same 24 hours in a day.’
Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
Seth Wheeler
Is it time thieves unionised?
The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People
Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.
If Neoliberalism Is Over, What Next?
If neoliberalism really is over then what comes after? And could this new political and economic moment, where a larger state is embraced, see a turn right rather than left? Aaron Bastani speaks to sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, ‘The Great Recoil’, examining how ideas of protection, control and state intervention are replacing […]
This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke
Andrew Fisher
This is a much bigger problem than the £20 cut.
Back on the Hard Road: How Stuart Hall Can Help Us Navigate Our Moment
David Wearing
History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Labour Wants to Win Back the Working Class. The Problem Is It Has No Idea Who They Are
Joe Bilsborough
The Tories get class formation. Starmer’s Labour doesn’t.
Think the Tories Can’t Possibly Paint Britain’s Pandemic Response As a Triumph? Think Again
Aaron Bastani
Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is the Ultimate Expression of Neoliberalism in Collapse
Aaron Bastani
