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Labour Leadership, Realities 16 hours ago

Reflections on the Corbyn Years

Tomorrow, Jeremy Corbyn’s term at the helm of Labour will come to an end. Some of The Social Review’s editors and contributors give their thoughts on his leadership: “Corbynism changed what we thought was possible within electoral politics” It is impossible to overstate how necessary Corbyn’s victory was for the Labour party. Had it not happened, there is a very good…

Labour Leadership 2 days ago

Genre Change

Though Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has stuck in the wider cultural memory as a great romance for the ages, one of the most important parts of the novel does not deal with pining or misunderstandings or grand love declarations: it is instead when Charlotte Lucas, who had until that point all but become a spinster, tells her friend Elizabeth Bennett that…

History and Strategy, History and Strategy, Possibilities, Realities 30th March 2020

It Ain’t Easy Being Soft

For all the talk of big tent politics, the term ‘Soft Left’ has become a tent so large that it has collapsed in the middle, and runs the risk of smothering those inside. Given that we at the Social Review are often accused of being the Pravda of the Soft Left, it is perhaps worth setting out a clearer definition of what…

Domestic Policy, Realities 29th March 2020

A Science-Based Socialist Response to COVID-19

Note: This article was written by Daniel A Villar (@Daniel_A_Villar) on behalf of Scientists for Labour. The past several weeks have probably been the most hectic I have ever experienced, and I imagine that is the same for most people reading this article. It isn’t often that you go, in the course of a month, from things being their normal dreary…

Realities 25th March 2020

The Social Review Podcast Episode 38: The Social Review Self-Isolates

Lockdown! Jasper, Eugenie, Peter, Morgan, Lines and Sean chat about what they’re doing to stay happy and healthy in self-isolation from coronavirus, from ‘Ready, Steady, Cook,’ to watching ‘Shrek’ for the first time, discussing the work of Hilary Mantel and much more. iTunes Google

Domestic Policy, Realities 24th March 2020

Falling Through the Gaps

Rishi Sunak’s announcement on Friday of a tranche of government interventions did not in any sense constitute a fully-formed raft of solutions to the acute strains the spread of the coronavirus has placed on the UK economy. Still, it has allayed some of the more significant concerns regarding the ability of some to cover their living expenses. What has been announced, however,…