Kudos for getting Sandy Denny, Paul Simon and John Mellencamp into the introduction 😎 Look forward to your views on how we develop a new economic model because I’ve been arguing for some time that the post Thatcherite settlement in the U.K. has run out of road but that Labour is struggling to develop an alternative. The weakest part of Phil Tinline’s excellent book on The Death of Consensus is the section outlining Labour’s thinking on the future.
😎 At least you discipline yourself to write it down. I really don’t know what the answer is. I’ve always thought politics was a battle of ideas and I just don’t see that from the British Labour Party at the present time. Going further back, I read some of the stuff by MacMillan which Peter Hennessy included in Winds of Change, and found it hard to imagine a recent British politician thinking that deeply about the direction of the country.
First rule of writing. Apply bum to seat. Second, rule, just write. You can tidy it up later. British politics is still in thrall to the Thatcher paradigm - put a price on everything and a value on nothing. Market values are the only values. That mindset needs to be broken. And not just in the UK.
Kudos for getting Sandy Denny, Paul Simon and John Mellencamp into the introduction 😎 Look forward to your views on how we develop a new economic model because I’ve been arguing for some time that the post Thatcherite settlement in the U.K. has run out of road but that Labour is struggling to develop an alternative. The weakest part of Phil Tinline’s excellent book on The Death of Consensus is the section outlining Labour’s thinking on the future.
Trying to figure out ways of getting song references into this stuff is one of the fun bits. Trying to figure out a way forward is the hard bit.
😎 At least you discipline yourself to write it down. I really don’t know what the answer is. I’ve always thought politics was a battle of ideas and I just don’t see that from the British Labour Party at the present time. Going further back, I read some of the stuff by MacMillan which Peter Hennessy included in Winds of Change, and found it hard to imagine a recent British politician thinking that deeply about the direction of the country.
First rule of writing. Apply bum to seat. Second, rule, just write. You can tidy it up later. British politics is still in thrall to the Thatcher paradigm - put a price on everything and a value on nothing. Market values are the only values. That mindset needs to be broken. And not just in the UK.