As Britain enters a period of economic decline, the socially conservative right is on the rise. Moral panics are coming thick and fast, with migrants, LGBTQ+ people and the ‘socially disruptive’ just a selection of targets in recent months. But worryingly, some of these panics are attracting support from both opportunistic politicians and a public who are told things can only get worse. The left must have an answer for rising reactionary politics – so what is it?
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Contributing editor at Novara Media.
Barnaby Raine is a historian writing his PhD on the rise and fall of visions of ending capitalism in imperial and postcolonial Britain.
Sita Balani is a writer and academic. Her first book "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" is out with Verso Books.
