I've looked at this photo a million times and never thought much of the hand in the jacket!

Great piece by @graceblakeley.substack.com on how the government is punishing young people for an economy built to fail them.

Labour is really giving a masterclass in how to alienate an entire generation.

“…finessing away active roles, complicities and abuse of access.”

“Out of the sinkholes of journalism and politics rises the journalism influencer. A hybrid, both narrator and protagonist, who scoffs at judgment as either cringe or motivated, and becomes ever more skilled and brazen in detached yarn-spinning…

“Although fear of Farageism was shared across delegates, a sense of urgency was not. While speakers were clear about what they stood against, there was little to say about combating Reform’s rise.”

Woah

In mere months we went from real enthusiasm to relitigating Soviet economics, which by the way is exactly the terrain the British media feels most comfortable confronting the left on.

Talking conspiracies at this stage is a gift to the state. Don’t take the bait.

The left can’t be afraid of mass participation. We need working-class leadership. Not just in aesthetic, but in structure. That means bottom-up organizing, not just slick media and star voices (we need that too! but more of the former).

Paranoia thrives in closed rooms. The only real antidote is transparency, shared decision-making, and a culture that values collective intelligence over factionalism.

Thanks for this thoughtful review Eilidh!