James Meadway

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | James Meadway

We live at a time of extraordinary change: from the postwar liberal international order, dominated by the US, into something whose contours are not yet clear, and may never be. From a world where economic growth was a year-in, year-out near-guarantee, to one where climate instability, resource conflicts and nature crises threaten the very foundations of that growth.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | James Meadway

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2 weeks ago | tribunemag.co.uk | James Meadway

Yesterday’s long-awaited Spending Review matched up to Labour’s many leaks and previews over the last few weeks. There were significant increases in health and military spending and some much needed money for housing and big infrastructure projects. But these are matched to further cuts in critical departments like agriculture and the environment, and the money for local government in particular does not restore losses since 2010 at a time of increasing pressures on their funding.

2 weeks ago | unherd.com | James Meadway

Keir StarmerLabour PartyPoliticsrachel reevesUK A fervid summer lies ahead for Britain’s political parties. Freed from the dull procedures of Parliament by a long hazy recess, MPs and their staff can get down to the serious business of knifing factional enemies. For the past decade, the two main parties have endured summers of instability and speculation over leadership — part of the deeper destabilisation of a once unflappable political system.

4 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | James Meadway

Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green Party leadership contest has become a straight fight between an energetic, “eco-populist” left candidate, and the party’s more cautious establishment. The prize is clear: local elections due next May across England’s major cities, including London councils. After that, who knows.