Liberal democracy just died. It’s been on life support for some time now. And when the alarm sounded, when the patient flatlined, did we call for the crash-cart? No, we ambled down the corridor to get fresh coffee.
Q: What will Labour centrist politicians do now that the collapse of neoliberalism into the degenerate matter of oligarchic authoritarianism is inevitable?
A: Leverage their networks to secure lucrative consultancies to revolve into at the end of their one-term government.
When a marginally less incompetent government begins the long, slow slog to address irregular maritime arrivals, we shouldn’t be surprised the right pivots to “grooming gangs”.
In the past I’ve used terms like “deep state” or “uniparty” on short-form media as a lazy shorthand. Whatever small use these terms had, they have now been fully captured by the manipulative conspiracist discourse of the hard right. I won’t be using them anymore. They are doing more harm than good.