A fascinating paper published on the eve of the election offers insights into a rich seam of contemporary Labour thinking that informed significant aspects of For the Many, Not the Few, and that may find fuller expression in the next programme the party takes to the country.
Mark Lilla’s collection of essays The Shipwrecked Mind asserts a classic liberal scepticism against both Golden Age and Futurist utopias.
There’s been much talk about the possibility of a progressive alliance between Labour and the Greens: but what substantive differences exist between socialists and greens?
An unexpected opportunity to see images from Ivan Leonidov’s City of the Sun series at The Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition.
In which I argue Blue Labour is part right about social democracy: social democracy is a form of communitarianism, but it is a communitarianism oriented to the future, not the past.
Mark Fisher’s latest – and tragically – final book The Weird and the Eerie explores encounters with the outside and the unknown in 20th and 21st century film, music and literature.
Why should Bowie’s music, so often abstract, glacial, detached, obscure and mockingly ironic, hold such a powerful emotional appeal for so many?