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Author: James Bloodworth
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Who Owns Our Beautiful Game?
Global capital is threatening a takeover of the essence of football – but it’s that essence that makes the sport such a commodity, writes James Bloodworth
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Care: The Cost of Petty Politics
How has the most humane work in our society been devalued and allowed to deteriorate for so long?
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A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed
James Bloodworth explores whether Britain and the United States can ever mature their mutual fascination with each other into more than symbolic fantasy
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A Town that has Stood Still as the World has Moved On
James Bloodworth returns to Wigan after a decade, en route to Ashton-in-Makerfield, to explore whether Orwell’s sense of the area’s ‘decay’ still rings true
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Can Hungary’s Democracy Recover from its Systematic Dismantling by Viktor Orbán?
The former Prime Minister did not destroy democracy outright – he re-engineered it into a system in which elections continue but meaningful political competition does not. His successor faces a complex dilemma of how to reform such a regime, writes James Bloodworth
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How Labour Became a Party of the Super-Rich
The Telegraph journalist Charles Moore once remarked that whereas Margaret Thatcher believed in privatisation, Tony Blair just liked rich people.
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Sir Paul Marshall and the Rise of Elite Evangelical Nationalism
Sir Paul Marshall, co-founder of asset management firm Marshall Wace, is one of the UK’s most powerful – but least scrutinised – political actors.
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Who Was Jeffrey Epstein?
The Epstein Files lay bare how power always protects its own, writes James Bloodworth
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The Plastic Patriots’ Love Affair with Russia
Why do so many on the British far-right profess to worship Winston Churchill butmake excuses for Vladimir Putin? By James Bloodworth
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Beyond Nostalgia – The Left Needs a Lasting Vision Our Lost Society Can Latch On To
James Bloodworth explores how and why the left abandoned its previous capacity to imagine the future – a vacuum into which the populist right has readily stepped
