If the far left’s failure mode is not understanding self-interest, the far right’s failure mode is not understanding other-interest.That is to say: we know the far left doesn’t viscerally get the idea of capitalism, of building products, of sometimes just not having the money to do something. The far left fantasy is of total independence from needing to work at all. They don’t understand economic scarcity.But the far right similarly doesn’t get the idea of diplomacy, of building coalitions, of sometimes jus ...

The Labour government has blown its stock of political capital on measures that are often sensible, frequently unpopular, but invariably too small, shallow and slow to make a difference https://t.co/lc7197aTk9 ...