Gerry Hassan is a writer and commentator who for the past three years has been Professor of Social Change at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has written extensively on Scottish and UK politics, social change and the future. His books on the Labour Party include
The Strange Death of Labour Scotland (2012) and
The People’s Flag and the Union Jack: An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party (2019) (both written with Eric Shaw). He is reviews editor of the journal
Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy and lives in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, where he co-founded and runs Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival.
After fourteen years of Conservative government – combined with Brexit, a global pandemic, the rise of a populist far right and the existential threat of climate change – many see Britain as undergoing serious social, economic and cultural decline. This is the context in which Labour...
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