Tag: populism
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Iran War: The Dead End of Populism
The war on Iran emphasises the need for something better than populism as a response to the failure of the old order, writes Peter Ramsay. Donald Trump’s purposeless war on Iran looks likely to bring global misery in its wake. The consequences for the supply of oil, gas and the raw materials for fertiliser production…
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Changing the Regime, Building the Nation
Philip Cunliffe explains why nation-building is the solution to the impasse in Western politics identified by Perry Anderson as the Regime. In a recent essay for the London Review of Books, Perry Anderson plots out the deadlock confronting political parties of both left and right across Western states, and notes that this deadlock paralyses both…
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Shuffling Between Populism and Technocracy
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest cabinet reshuffle exposes a crumbling government torn between mindless populism and deadend, unaccountable technocracy, argues Lizzie Finegan. Another day, another cabinet reshuffle. The primary victim was Home Secretary Suella Braverman, darling of the right-populist wing of Britain’s Conservative Party. The prime beneficiary was ex-prime minister David Cameron. Rising from…
The Northern Star 