Five Most Popular Posts in March

Lower posting frequency made for a quieter month on the blog, but what piqued the interests of most visitors to this corner of the internet?

1. On Anti-Green Hysteria
2. On Labour-Green Defections
3. Labourism and Social Conservatism
4. Slipping the Leash
5. Angela Rayner's Alternative

Smashing into first place is the realisation that, despite apparently seeing off Jeremy Corbyn and Corbynism, the left and the aspirations and interests it speaks to have not gone away. Now the Greens are the vehicle of this coming politics the establishment are losing their minds. Again. Sort-of-related to this are the issues arising from would-be Labour defectors to the Greens. Apparently, some MPs want guarantees that they would be selected again for their new party - exactly the kind of careerist entitlement one might expect from Labour right wingers. The problem is the Green Party constitution can't guarantee it. If they want selection, any newbie MPs would have to work for it. In at third was yet another stroll down the well-trodden Blue Labour path, this time in riposte to yet more idiocy from this quarter. Making waves at four was the shocking news that Keir Starmer hasn't followed Trump into war with Iran. Though, by happily allowing British bases to be used for bombing raids and supply runs, Iran are not appreciating that nicety. And coming in last was Rayner's "outspoken" criticism of the government's record. We must be getting close to the local elections and the window for a leadership challenge.

Selecting the post deserving an additional plug is easy. It's last night's discussion of Jean Baudrillard's (Nietzschean) approach to terrorism and how the Islamic Republic are pursuing a symbolic strategy against which the US and Israel cannot possibly win.

April has plenty of things happening. Being caught in a writing funk for a while now, last month I started several posts but gave up early on. But after last night's offering, which took far longer than normal, I'm hopeful that the energy and inclination will present itself. Even outside of the news there's plenty of interesting things happening - not least the transformation of the Greens, Reform's hiccups, the continued decline of the Tories, on and on it goes. As the philosopher Gillian Rose used to say to her postgrad students, "Speak! Or the idiots will speak."

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