Politics
Reflections on the election
There was a general election in the UK. It was complicated.
Politics
Capitalism
Systems of Interest
I haven't seen The Zone of Interest yet but I very much intend to and have been following the reviews. I particularly liked Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's discussion which included some observations from Mayo who has a prior interest in Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss'
Socialism
Exeunt Corbyn
Waaay back in 2000-whenever-it-was, when the world made a smidge more sense, I joined the Labour party to vote in the leadership election. You could call me an entryist, but I'd pretty much always voted Labour and been on the cusp of joining for a while. I voted
Socialism
Heritage Socialism – a working definition
I'm working on a piece where the key concept is something I've called "heritage socialism", a term I like but which I've struggled to explain. So I'm going to have a go here. According to the Wikipedians, "cultural heritage