SO, HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKING OUT FOR YOU?

Then: We Are All Socialists Now.

—Cover story, the far left Newsweek, then still-owned by the Washington Post, February 16th, 2009.

Now: Does the left have a future? All over the west, the left is in crisis. It cannot find answers to three urgent problems*: the disruptive force of globalisation, the rise of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work.

—Headline, The far left London Guardian, September 6th, 2016.

* We’ve seen this moment before, haven’t we? Or to put it another way, welcome back my friends to the malaise that never ends.