Vaping is a great example of humanity’s failure to live up to its own hype. We’ve swapped an addiction we knew was dangerous for another that could well be. Sometimes progress is an illusion. The idea of progress can be an illusion in politics too, especially if you are a “progressive”, the biggest misnomer since the German Democratic Republic.
With a looming Labour election victory, the Left desperately needs coherence and instead it is anxious and atomised. Progressive politics is increasingly meaningless by name and meaningless by nature.
