Paul Embery is a friend of mine; born and raised in Dagenham and proud of it. He is also a hero, a firefighter and for twenty years an active member of the FBU. However Paul faces being kicked off the FBU national executive and debarred from holding office for two years.
Read moreProgressive Politics Has Been Left Behind
Blue Labour welcomes political debate. The journal Political Quarterly has been promoting an essay by Jon Bloomfield in which he explains the ‘fallacies of Blue Labour’ and his progressive alternative to them. Here’s a response to it.
Read moreLet’s Bring Back Cakes and Ale Socialism
Few people would immediately associate the modern Left with a spirit of delight and celebration. The popular image is of purse-lipped puritanical preaching, interspersed with a good dollop of hypocritical Bollinger bolshevism – quaffing a nice glass of something cold and sparkling with one hand while finger-jabbing at the plebs’ pleasure in bacon sandwiches, fags and booze with the other.
Read moreNigel Farage and Our Democratic Nation
The Brexit party has energy, clarity and purpose. Nigel Farage is redefining the national political debate around democracy and the nation. The political class, he argues, never intended to allow Brexit.
Read moreThe End of Progress?
Brexit, Trump, and the rise of populism signal the end of liberal hegemony in the West. Our political task must be to reject narratives of inevitable progress and build a democratic common good.
Brexit, Trump, and the rise of populism signal the end of liberal hegemony in the West. Our political task must be to reject narratives of inevitable progress and build a democratic common good.
Read moreOn the Left and Roger Scruton
I got to know Roger Scruton because, being Blue Labour, I was interested in conservative thinking and he is England’s foremost conservative thinker and our country’s most eminent philosopher.
Read moreWhat is Blue Labour? A Response to Harry Pitts and Matt Bolton
We read your essay on Corbynism and Blue Labour with interest. Your focus on the issues of sovereignty, the people and the nation are all critical terms in the debate around Brexit. They are central to our times.
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