Yesterday I attended the #NovaraIRL event on Money For Nothing, an event on automation, work and the universal basic income with panelists Jeremy Gilbert, Joanna Biggs, Alex Gordon and Aaron Bastani, chaired by Eleanor Penny. The standard of debate was very high and I thought that it was really interesting…

Donald Trump’s executive order regarding travel to the US from Muslim majority countries has received widespread international condemnation. JFK airport was almost brought to a standstill as New Yorkers massed in support of those trapped at the border. Hundreds of legal representatives flooded the airport to assist refugees. Having recently…

Reading the tweets, commentary journalism and looking at some of today’s front pages (particularly the i newspaper) you’d be forgiven for thinking that in yesterday’s speech David Cameron came out with a five year plan to put the means of production in the hands of the workers within our lifetimes…

I am no fan of Tony Blair. I am no fan of the Labour party. Yet the ongoing and seemingly interminable Labour leadership election has irritated as to its descriptions what Tony Blair was and what his political lesson is for his supposed heirs. Several themes interlock. First, that Blair…

Writing in The Times Tim Montgomerie assures us the targets of some of Paul Mason’s ire in his recent book Postcapitalism are mistaken. No neoliberal state is concerned with employing riot squads and the secret police to enforce market rule. No, a whole list of centre-right politicians are pragmatists not…