Volume 32 No.1
Craig Berry, Eunice Goes and Karl Pike
Editorial: The promise and the perils of pragmatic politics (Online version – free to read)
PRAGMATISM AND THE LEFT
Karl Pike
Social democratic ideology: a conversation with Elizabeth Anderson (Online version – free to read)
John Denham
Whither the soft left? (Free to read – COMING SOON)
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Labour and the Lib Dems: co-operation and conflict in Consborough (Free to read – COMING SOON)
STORIES AND NATIONHOOD
Emily Robinson and Jonathan Moss
The politics of feeling
Gerry Hassan
The need for a new story of hope and agency: Labour, Britishness and the British state
BEYOND AUSTERITY
Carlo D’Ippoliti
Eurozone reform: a fiscal framework to rule them all
Anna Coote
Universal basic services and renewing social democracy
REVIEWS
Nick Garland
Liberal after all: Jon Cruddas comes full circle
Matthew Donoghue
Morbid symptoms: centre-left failure and neoliberal resilience in an age of austerity
Latest from the Blog
Reflections on David Marquand and New Labour
David Marquand, who died last month, provided crucial intellectual inspiration to New Labour, before becoming one of its most trenchant critics. Patrick Diamond reflects on Marquand’s influence and what was lost.
Confronting high-velocity culture
Rapidly advancing information technologies were once widely expected to liberate humanity from routine tasks and spur fresh creative and stimulating activity. Yet their recent impact, powerfully influenced by giant corporations, has posed formidable problems in a period already marked by social and economic crises. “Immediacy”, a new book by University of Illinois professor Anna Kornbluh, exposes an…
The Road to Municipal Socialism – the Present and Future of the Preston Model
In Preston, the Labour-led council has earned plaudits for its pioneering approach to community wealth building. Here, council leader Matthew Brown speaks to Martin O’Neill about the progress of community wealth building, in Preston and around the world.