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Squalid Isolation – Social Cohesion, Quality of Life and Losing the Ties that Bind

A few weeks ago I called on social democracy to come to terms with the fact that many of its voters are not on loan to other parties, but for the most part gone for good. One of the key problems behind this, I argued, is that the traditional bases of all mass parties are [...]

Social Democracy without a Future?

The new generation of social democrats will need a better strategy than third-wayism. The financial crisis is also the crisis of social democracy. Paradoxically, it is the right that has come out of crisis more strongly, generally by being better social democrats than social democrats themselves. Or, at least, so they would have us believe. [...]