A Socialist in New York and a Green in Britain Walk Into a Polling Booth
The full recording of me talking uncomfortably at my laptop - about Mamdani, the Greens, Labour’s mood problem, and why hope isn’t naïve.
Welcome to Bearly Politics - where I take my angry stick and use it to poke at politics, power and the sometimes strange optimism that keep some of us going despite it all. I’m The Bear, and today’s post is about hope - the real kind, not the PR kind. A note that this is a long and rambling one made specifically for a Sunday afternoon read, so grab a coffee, a …
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