Reflections on the labour leadership election So, against all the odds, he did it. Jeremy Corbyn’s victory is already being claimed as an ‘insurgency’ on the scale of the SNP advance in Scotland, and driven by much the same popular discontent with austerity economics and ‘business as usual ‘ neo-liberal politics. The campaign’s success is being widely interpreted as … [Read more...] about And now for something completely different
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Legacy politics and the ruses of remembrance Foreword Not so long ago I had the experience of mentoring a young German student who was intensely curious about British culture and society and what had shaped it in the second half of the 20th century. He plied me with questions like ‘What was it like before Mrs Thatcher?’. ‘How does the situation of gay people … [Read more...] about Archive that,Comrade