EDITORIAL: The challenges of social democracy

Social democrats face a reckoning. Keir Starmer’s tepid, self-flagellating brand of managerial Labourism has hit an electoral wall, undermined by his persistent refusal to either define or defend the nature of his government’s project. Tax-and-spend fiscal policies have been repackaged as austerity, while genuinely socialist achievements on housing, transport, climate, and workers’ rights have gone unheralded – obscured by an ignominious reluctance to assert progressive values, or to openly conf...

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