Bearly Politics

Bearly Politics

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.

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Nov 09, 2025
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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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