We Don’t Need the Blitz Spirit, We Need the Popular Front
If the Left is to draw any comparisons between the current crisis and the Second World War, it should look to the broad left-wing movement that built a consensus for the welfare state.
Coronavirus is like a war, we’re told, but that language poses particular challenges. One of the peculiarities of the English is that war for us always seems to mean ‘the’ war: Britons of 1940 standing alone with just a colonial empire behind them. All through the Brexit saga we had to wallow in this quagmire. […]
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