“The British left has long been bedevilled by the conservative tenor of its dreams of a better society, combining a pre-industrial rural nostalgia with the sober respectability of the self-improving working class. This tends to be heightened whenever there is the threat from the radical left, and the reaction invariably emphasises an aesthetic and moral critique over a material analysis” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/04/reclaiming-history-for-left.html