Robert WagerI Think This Is Part III don’t remember the 1987 election but I remember the 1992 one; I was seven. I remember my Mum being hopeful that, this time, there’d…May 3, 2018May 3, 2018
Robert WagerCall This Bit Part IWe’ve all read them and lots of us have written them. The ‘political’ Facebook post with its sudden shift in register (from ‘banter’ to…May 3, 2018May 3, 2018
Robert WagerBlog Tapas?Cleaning out the remains of one of the many blogs I tried to write in the early 2010s I came across a post in which I’d stated my intention…Jan 3, 2018Jan 3, 2018
Robert WagerAt the end of 2016 I made a sort of New Year’s resolution to read the equivalent of a book every…I completely failed in this task.Jan 1, 2018Jan 1, 2018
Robert WagerThe ‘F’ word‘Ur-Fascism (a term meaning ‘eternal fascism’) is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier for us, if there…Feb 6, 2017Feb 6, 2017
Robert Wager2017’s Pace AnxiiI’m not sure what you call this thing that’s developed, in the Labour Party and the left more generally; it isn’t peace, nor for sure a…Jan 22, 2017Jan 22, 2017
Robert WagerThe Not-So-Strange Death of Labour EnglandPerhaps as a consequence of not having an awful lot to do, I’ve been in a better position to Notice Political Things of late. I noticed the…Sep 28, 2016Sep 28, 2016
Robert WagerCorbynism and its DiscontentsMaybe, just maybe, I’m the wrong generation for it, Corbynism. I remember the bright, sunlit uplands of 1997, you see. A new dawn had…Jul 20, 2016Jul 20, 2016
Robert Wager2003I didn’t go, in the end. On the march. I didn’t go. It was very me, at the time. I didn’t know what I thought and I didn’t know who was…Jul 6, 2016Jul 6, 2016
Robert WagerA Low, Dishonest DecadeSo it’s goodbye but not farewell, then, to Nigel, a man whose political obsolescence was prophesied from his own lips but not believed…Jul 4, 2016Jul 4, 2016