“In just 44 days, the country lost a queen, a pound, economic credibility, a chancellor, a home secretary, a prime minister—and its political sanity,” writes Gary Younge.
This week, Younge assessed the ephemeral tenure of Liz Truss, whose premiership was the shortest in British history. But Truss’s dismissal isn’t the only chaotic episode to befall Britain in recent memory: “Stranger things have happened lately. Indeed, they keep happening. Everything is in play, flux, and confusion.”
Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.
Kim Kelly’s survey of labor organizing in America—telling the stories of workers on the margins, from miners to sex workers—offers hope and inspiration for working-class victories to come.