The Long Reply

The Long Reply

Politics & Power

Empathy Is Not Agreement.
Understanding a belief is not the same as giving it moral shelter.
 • Tom J. Elston
Where Politics Hits the Kerb.
The State Is Not an Abstraction When Your Bin Hasn’t Been Emptied.
 • Tom J. Elston
Nothing to Hide?
The Tyranny of Transparency, and the Power to Disappear
 • Tom J. Elston
The Problem With ‘Listening to Concerns’.
Political ventriloquism and you.
 • Tom J. Elston
Moloch Was Never a God: on coordination, sacrifice and the theology of helplessness
Some meditations on "Meditations on Moloch", climate policy, and AI
 • Tom J. Elston
The New Jerusalem Was Built with Ration Books.
Why we keep misremembering Attlee, 1945, and the post-war settlement.
 • Tom J. Elston
The Progressive Vote Is Not a Personality Trait.
How first-past-the-post turns moral self-expression into political consequence.
 • Tom J. Elston
Reform Isn’t Anti-Establishment. It’s Anti-Responsibility.
On politics as evading responsibility.
 • Tom J. Elston
The Toxicity of Labour Factionalism.
"Andy Burnham isn’t fit to lick Keir’s boots" and other insights.
 • Tom J. Elston
Competence Is Not a Political Project.
Blair Is Wrong. That Is Not the Same as Being Useless.
 • Tom J. Elston
The Real Labour Leadership Contest.
The Runners and Riders Have Escaped the Stable.
 • Tom J. Elston
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