What hope for Labour and the left? The election, the 80s and ‘aspiration’

I posted this article about the Labour leadership election, the Corbyn surge, the political legacies of the 1980s, and what Blairites mean when they talk about ‘aspiration’, on open Democracy yesterday. (Apologies to those who already know that!)

Everything has changed but nothing has changed: cultural stasis and technological revolution

This is a recording of a lecture I gave at Open School East about retromania, the global hegemony of Big Tech + finance capital, etc.

‘Neoliberalism’ and ‘Capitalism’ – what’s the difference?

I wrote this in response to a discussion  of this theme on the NEON list. Thinking it was both too long for an email list and might be a useful resource for some people, I posted it here…

What’s the difference between ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘capitalism’ 

I think that neoliberalism and capitalism are simply different types of thing.