Volume 32 No.1
Craig Berry, Eunice Goes and Karl Pike
Editorial: The promise and the perils of pragmatic politics (Online version – free to read)
PRAGMATISM AND THE LEFT
Karl Pike
Social democratic ideology: a conversation with Elizabeth Anderson (Online version – free to read)
John Denham
Whither the soft left? (Free to read – COMING SOON)
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Labour and the Lib Dems: co-operation and conflict in Consborough (Free to read – COMING SOON)
STORIES AND NATIONHOOD
Emily Robinson and Jonathan Moss
The politics of feeling
Gerry Hassan
The need for a new story of hope and agency: Labour, Britishness and the British state
BEYOND AUSTERITY
Carlo D’Ippoliti
Eurozone reform: a fiscal framework to rule them all
Anna Coote
Universal basic services and renewing social democracy
REVIEWS
Nick Garland
Liberal after all: Jon Cruddas comes full circle
Matthew Donoghue
Morbid symptoms: centre-left failure and neoliberal resilience in an age of austerity
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The politics of embedding a new economic consensus
In her Mais Lecture, Rachel Reeves set out her ambition to shape and embed a new economic policy consensus. Tony Payne considers the prerequisites to success.
The pitfalls of pluralism: a reply to John Denham
John Denham lays down the challenge that the soft left must overcome its aversion to organisation, or remain marginalised. For a faction enjoying neither strong links to business nor the trade unions, the central obstacle is money. In its absence, Labour’s soft left should look to more decentralised, more pluralist organisation, forming alliances around individual…