I remember a Walter Jon Williams 1980s cyberpunk novel (Hardwired maybe?) mentioning the far-fetched scenario of Russia and Ukraine fighting over the Crimea
You're not a real leftist if you didn't spend your Saturday mornings trying to sell copies of Tribune outside the local shopping center and considered it a victory for socialism if you managed to sell one copy (to your wife)
The problem with the whole tuition fees thing is that the 20-something voter who got betrayed by that U-turn back then still has decades of voting ahead of them....
Thinking of Thatcher, who wasn't a card-carrying neoliberal for much of her career and perhaps just had a surface-level understanding of Hayek and Friedman, but was able to articulate slogans in a way that had common appeal
I think what the Spectator - and its billionaire patrons - fear most of all is left-populism rather than the specific policies. A genuinely popular left-wing candidate (time will tell if that's Polanski) is a threat to their narrative that their eventual victory is inevitable.
Should have been a Monkees Vietnam episode where the gang are going on a secret mission downriver to assassinate Davey Jones, who has gone mad in the jungle and is ruling over a tribe of Monkees fans as a god
