Jack SClass and politics in 2017As someone born in the 1980s, the shifting role of class in frontline British politics over my lifetime has been entirely bewildering. The…Feb 14, 2017Feb 14, 2017
Jack STrade unions are workersOne of the historical stories that’s driven British politics over the last 40 years has been “trade union power”. It’s been a big part of…Dec 21, 2016Dec 21, 2016
Jack SPretending to be someone elsePolitically speaking, I don’t generally get along with Leninists of any stripe, but I have to admit they do come up with the odd razor…Jul 26, 2016Jul 26, 2016
Jack SIn his speech the other day Neil Kinnock reminded me of a peculiar tick the Labour Party mainstream…Syndicalism had been a prominent ideology amongst some workers in the period before World War One. Analogous movements existed in countries…Jul 10, 2016Jul 10, 2016
Jack SI am considerably more sceptical about the effects of formal politics on this country’s social and…Hence I would defend the idea that the most radical periods of government-driven change in the 20th Century (1906–1914, 1945 -1951…Jun 30, 2016Jun 30, 2016