Outrage is easy. Outrage feels righteous. But outrage without discipline destroys the very people it claims to save.
If we want transformation that endures, we must build it brick by brick. Or watch it burn, again.
Roger Douglas has reverted to his socialist roots by going back on his pro market mantra and criticising the economic privilege and inequality that he helped create.
Using neoliberal ideas to try and remedy a situation where neoliberalism is very sick indeed is kind of like pouring salt on the wound. Fortunately we have new, emerging models of how run society that can also serve us well in a covid and climate world.
To win the 2017 election Labour does not need a broad suite of policies, rather it needs to make sure that it is asking the right questions.
Thirty years old today – the longest April Fool’s joke in history?
George Monbiot in the Guardian gives a precise and accurate description of neoliberalism and asks the question why has the left not come up with a modern alternative?
What would have happened if in 1984 David Lange had exerted control and appointed a centrist rather than right wing Labour cabinet?
Stuart Nash has criticised members of the Labour and this blog for having open and occasionally forceful debate.
