Archive - The Long Reply

Reform Isn’t Anti-Establishment. It’s Anti-Responsibility.

On politics as evading responsibility.

22 hrs ago • Tom J. Elston

The Toxicity of Labour Factionalism.

"Andy Burnham isn’t fit to lick Keir’s boots" and other insights.

Jun 3 • Tom J. Elston

May 2026

Competence Is Not a Political Project.

Blair Is Wrong. That Is Not the Same as Being Useless.

May 29 • Tom J. Elston

The Real Labour Leadership Contest.

The Runners and Riders Have Escaped the Stable.

May 28 • Tom J. Elston

In Defence of Doubt.

Certainty is reassuring. But faith and certainty are not the same thing.

May 28 • Tom J. Elston

Synthesis Was the Best Ending. That Was the Problem.

Mass Effect 3, the Never-Ending Debate, and the Secret Fifth Ending.

May 28 • Tom J. Elston

Sykes-Picot and the Comfort of a Bad Explanation.

The borders they didn’t draw, and why we pretend they did.

May 28 • Tom J. Elston

Disgust Is Not a Policy.

Transgender Identity and the Argument beneath the Argument.

May 28 • Tom J. Elston

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