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Article on Mamdani.

At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less
Samuel Earle

Who's got some good communication skills, but as some point out below the line has promised things he has no legal capacity to deliver. But we can wish him luck, fair enough.

Who's the bad guy, doing it wrong? You'll be amazed to hear.

Unlike Mamdani, Starmer has assumed that people want less politics. As he explained in January 2024, after 14 years of Tory misrule, people wanted “a politics that treads a little lighter on all of our lives”, because “the thing about populism” is that it “needs your full attention … and that’s exhausting, isn’t it?” In this vision, the best prime minister is one who lets us go about our business in peace once again.

Oh, that guy! Who doesn't seem to have said "less politics" at all (whatever that would mean). What he was referencing was populism being in your face all the time, which is what the populist right do. There's a rather good example on another thread- attempted culture war from some volunteers falling out at the National Trust.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-politics