Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class

Dear Colleagues,

Still struggling to access this blog and this accounts for far too occasional posts. Still working on the idea of moving over to WordPress, but for now will still post whenever I can.

This is just a brief post to say that I have been sent by Polity a copy of an 'interesting' book by Paul Embery, a Blue Labour trade union activist and journalist - he posts regularly here: UnHerd | think again

I will be writing a fuller review of the book, but for now, based on what I have read, my instinct is first to be comradely and welcome the book as an aid to questioning and reflecting the political state of the Left in the UK and of its future.

More broadly though a key complaint thus far is that Embery struggles to build and maintain a cohesive logic or argument. There is much he asserts that I agree with, but his core claims of a zealous metropolitan liberal elite are incoherent, and not least because of a visceral anger that gets in the way of rational argument.

I am only a third of the way through and shall continue in order to post a fuller review here.

In the meantime though, can I wish comrades a decent Christmas, and send good wishes for a better, healthier 2021.

In Solidarity

Ian