What does the leftwing ‘Occupy’ movement have in common with the rightwing ‘Tea Party’? The answer to that, remarkably, is ten per cent of American voters: “…polls show that 21 percent of Occupy Wall Street supporters self-identify as ‘conservative’ and one of 10 Americans support both the Tea Party and OWS.” This, if nothing else, […]
The American sociologist Amitai Etzioni was once a familiar name in British politics, thanks to his status as an academic guru to Tony Blair. Etzioni’s key idea was ‘communitarianism’ – a non-socialist alternative to the individualism of the 1980s. As such it was seized upon by New Labour as an all-purpose intellectual gap-filler. It was […]