Inventing the Future: towards the automated economy
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams imagines a ‘post-work economy’ in a world beyond neoliberalism.
Economics
Blue Labour’s theology of the common good
Blue Labour is interesting because it has something new to say. Or more accurately, perhaps, something that only seems new because it is so old, forgotten by contemporary political debate for many decades: a renewed focus on the ancient idea, at the heart of classic political and religious thought, of the common good.
General Election 2015: a view from the window seat
A view of the 2015 General Election from a plane window, with the blue haze shimmering over the tip of Greenland: I discuss some important issues that aren’t being talked about.
Introducing Sceptical Scot
Over the past few weeks I’ve been glad to help with the development of a new current affairs website, Sceptical Scot, which launched this week. The site hopes to bring more light than heat to the ongoing, intense discussion over the future of Scotland in the wake of last year’s referendum.
Back to The Future of Socialism
Back to The Future of Socialism, a new book by the Labour MP and former Cabinet minister Peter Hain, is a bold effort to reimagine for today the most influential text by a British social democrat of the last century.
Syriza and the agony of Greece
The rise of Greece’s Syriza may signal the emergence of a revitalised European social democracy.
10 books for 2015
There will be many others I don’t yet know about. And I’m sure I will not read everything listed below. But here are 10 books to be published in 2015 I’m looking forward to, summarised in alphabetical order.