Category Archives: Left renewal

Posts in category: "Left renewal":

Are they our fault too ?

07Jun09 – 20:07

I've long harboured the belief that the third way was a dangerous ideological course. Like many very sensible ideas, it is, in practice, flawed.
The current state of politics seems to bear that out.
Some time ago, for reasons that were misguided, campaigning became a science.
We all became obsessed with 'turning out our vote', profiling the electors, [...]

By Cllr Tim Cheetham | Also posted in Democracy, Labour | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Hating politics

19Mar09 – 09:50

...no defence of politics, no outline of how it can be done properly, and no questioning of how far the quality of democracy can provide a cause for these problems...

By Paul Evans | Also posted in The left | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Not just Obama

08Mar09 – 21:21

That we share a language with a superpower is a mixed blessing. That the superpower in question tends to be more politically conservative than the UK is definitely not a good thing for the centre-left. Don Paskini has a great post up telling us to look a little beyond Obama if we're looking for examples [...]

By Paul Evans | Also posted in The left | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Democratic Republicanism

09Feb09 – 10:26

Protecting individual liberty and popular sovereignty from subversion by the market. Over on the Fabian Society blog.

By Paul Evans | Comments (0)