Status Updates From The Tribe: The Liberal-Left...

"Identity group favouritism is an essential tool for anyone who wants to achieve hegemony in the [Labour] party; it is an essential weapon in the armoury but also an attractive one because it allows factions to hide attempts to defeat their rivals behind a veil of equality and social justice."

Continues to be densely and carefully argued, with plenty of supporting evidence.

Very interesting section around here on the concept of 'existential defeat', particularly in relation to the white working class in Britain.

So far, informative and carefully argued.

This book is fantastic. Of all the books I’ve read trying to sort out the forces driving the increasing polarization and instability in Western societies, this is one of the most illuminating; its right up there with David Goodhart’s “The Road to Somewhere”.