Deprecated: Function wp_make_content_images_responsive is deprecated since version 5.5.0! Use wp_filter_content_tags() instead. in /home/edadbce1/archive.progressivebritain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114

Mark Rusling Articles

Tell it again, Ed

This time last year, David Cameron was mocking Ed Miliband for advocating ‘predistribution’. Ed argued for a move away from an approach to low pay based purely on top-ups through the tax and welfare systems towards one in which welfare becomes less necessary as...
Read More

Love will tear us apart?

Last year, the philosopher Stephen Asma wrote a book with a title designed to ruffle leftwing feathers: Against Fairness. He argues that in ‘our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another,...
Read More

The ticking timebomb under Tory seats

On 27 June, music fans were heading to Glastonbury and sports fans were glued to their TV sets as Roger Federer crashed out of Wimbledon. But political nerds were glued to a fascinating set of council by-elections. You weren’t? Well that’s OK because, like Flash...
Read More

The type of class war we should believe in

In the centre of York in the mid-1980s there used to be two pieces of graffiti on adjacent walls. One shouted, ‘No war but the class war’; the other advised: ‘Eat the rich, feed the poor’. Maybe the same person wrote them both? If so, it wasn’t the prime minister....
Read More
Keep it simple

Keep it simple

Nov 1, 2013 |

Those of us who knock on doors or watch lower league football often hear the same complaint: don’t complicate things;...