Politics off-mike

This week on the CW election blog, Angus Kennedy suggests politicians’ rhetoric of improvement obscures a failure to address the question of what we really value and why, Robin Walsh challenges the depoliticising tendency to eschew political principles in favour of ‘evidence-based policy’, and Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng locates the appeal of the BNP in the failures of New Labour.

Meanwhile in London theatre as the election approaches, proles and toffs under the microscope: Andrew Haydon reviews Pressure Drop, a musical investigation of British/English identity and the far right, featuring Billy Bragg, and Miriam Gillinson is less impressed by Laura Wade’s Posh, a one-sided examination of David Cameron’s milieu.

29 April 2010