This is a long form version of the post “We are all pissed off” TLDR: The political future depends less on the existence of grievance than on who succeeds in converting it into collective agency, and what kind of ‘we’ they construct? © 2026 Lance Stephen Goodman. All rights reserved. Abstract This paper examines howContinue reading “The Race for Collective Agency: Social Fracture, Political Mobilisation and Ecological Constraint”
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We are all Pissed Off. Now What?
The Race for ‘Collective Agency’ TLDR: The political future depends less on the existence of grievance than on who succeeds in converting it into collective agency. There seems to be no shortage of anger. We see it on social media, on the telly, on the roads. Many people are angry about housing, immigration, wagesContinue reading “We are all Pissed Off. Now What?”
The Common Sense Swindle
The Common Sense Swindle: Inside Britain’s Culture-War Playbook “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” — W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming When Farage talks, a rectum is relieved of its wind. His words are of the fragrance of a freshly laid turd. And yet, many consider his pronouncementsContinue reading “The Common Sense Swindle”
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