Politics has run out of road

Neoliberal politics promised growth, efficiency, and renewal. What it has delivered is inequality, insecurity, and democratic exhaustion. The right has failed.

But, as this video explains, much of the left has no alternative to offer. Labour’s fiscal rules, growth-first economics, and treatment of public services as costs are not left-wing ideas – they are neoliberalism with a softer tone.

No wonder most people are alienated from the whole political process: it has run out of road.

Without care at the centre of economic thinking, markets fragment society, trust collapses, and democracy weakens. Better management is not enough. We need care as a new organising principle.