Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no
choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift the
open and the flexible. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble of old school statism and
identity politics. Both ultimately failed. In this book Maurice Glasman takes the axe to the
soulless utilitarianism and 'progressive' intolerance of both Blair and Corbyn. Human beings
he contends are not calculating machines but faithful relational beings who yearn for
meaning and belonging. Rooted in their homes families and traditions they seek to resist the
revolutionary upheaval of markets and states which try to commodify and dominate their lives
and homes by the practice of democracy mutuality and pluralism. This is the true Labour
tradition which is paradoxically both radical and conservative - and more relevant than ever
in a post-COVID world. This crisp statement of the real politics of Blue Labour - rather than
the absurd caricature of its detractors - is Glasman's love letter to the left-conservatism
that provides Labour's best chance of moral - and indeed electoral - redemption.
