Future of the Left

A fortnightly newsletter exploring the political, economic, and cultural challenges facing the left in Britain and beyond.

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[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

🔥New FotL issue with intro from Tobias Phibbs on Arsenal, and response to Blair by Jonathan Rutherford🔥

Includes:
@TomMcTague on 1840s
@DantonsHead and @MarkMcvitie on 🇬🇧's economic future
@jamesbreckwoldt on Manchester
Sam Kriss on AI writing
@skulthorp on the English

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[Blue Labour @blue_labour]

Interested in Blue Labour? Join us at Britons Protection in Manchester on Thursday 25 June.

@connor_naismith
@Jonathan_Hinder
@DespoticInroad
and Frances Foley will talk about where we go after Makerfield. Come along.

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[Blue Labour @blue_labour]

What were they thinking? Former police officer @Jonathan_Hinder writes for @FutureLeft1 on the Henry Nowak killing and the police response.

Read it here: https://t.co/QpFL2SEsXx

[Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder]

The armchair critics, dug into their opposing positions, seize on any individual incident to support their sweeping conclusions about the motivations and performance of 140,000 officers. So are the police now “woke”, or racist? It is hard to keep up as the pendulum wildly swings.

[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

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"Watching the body-worn camera footage as a former officer, I cannot understand why the officers were not quicker in treating this as a medical emergency, but the ensuing public debate has been woefully ill-informed." writes @Jonathan_Hinder

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[Blue Labour @blue_labour]

The long shadow of Tony Blair has once again cast itself over the Labour party.

Jonathan Rutherford writes the definitive response.

"What Labour politicians called progress, was experienced by many as the destruction of their way of life and of their country."

[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

Also includes @richardmarcj and @LeeDavidEvansUK on General Strike, Jason Cowley on Arsenal, Frances Foley on Blue Labour and Soft Left, and @andrewsgeoff on his excellent new book Radicals: The Working Classes And The Making of Modern Britain

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[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

🔥New FotL issue with intro from Tobias Phibbs on Arsenal, and response to Blair by Jonathan Rutherford🔥

Includes:
@TomMcTague on 1840s
@DantonsHead and @MarkMcvitie on 🇬🇧's economic future
@jamesbreckwoldt on Manchester
Sam Kriss on AI writing
@skulthorp on the English

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[Ben Glover @bengglover]

What unites Blue Labour and the soft left?

What unites the old right and the Socialist Campaign Group?

I've written for @NewStatesman on how reindustrialisation can unite Labour - and what that means for 'Manchesterism'.

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[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

@dai_alectic If you want to understand British politics, you need to read Nation of Shopkeepers.

[Siobhan Corbey Tobin @_SiobhanCT]

Have reviewed Half Man Half Biscuit’s album All Asimov and No Fresh Air for this week’s newsletter from @FutureLeft1.

Give it a read!

[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

Also includes @RianCFFWhitton on reindustrialisation, @_SiobhanCT on Half Man Half Biscuit, @bukesisback on why everyone is a British nationalist now, and @bureaucatliu's new Palm Springs School for Social Research.

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[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

🐝🐝 New FotL issue with intro from us on @AndyBurnhamGM 🐝🐝

Includes:
@DantonsHead on Manchesterism
@MarkMcvitie on a new economic settlement
@DespoticInroad on an emerging consensus
@wself on Starmer
@DouthatNYT on why no one can govern
@YuanfenYang on long-term growth

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[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

@daniel_dsj2110 @tylercowen

[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

@DespoticInroad @martha_dacombe @dai_alectic @Jackpeacock21 Turn off the rolling news and read the whole series here.

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[Future of the Left @FutureLeft1]

Dispatches from a discontented country.

First up, @_SiobhanCT on the two faces of Margate.

"Someone tried to open a jazz bar opposite Elsewhere a few years ago. It closed within a year. You can’t put a jazz bar in a Shoe Zone, we said. Now they’ve put the Greens in Margate."

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@DespoticInroad @martha_dacombe @dai_alectic @Jackpeacock21 And finally, Jason Cowley writes the PM's political obituary: "Increasingly when he speaks nothing occurs to me. He repeats his key words – change, renewal, working people, hardworking people – but you have the sense that no one is listening. There is only the echo of the void."