Jonathan White

Jonathan White is a former academic and co-author of Building an Economy for the Future: An Alternative Economic and Political strategy for 21st Century Britain (Manifesto Press). He is Associate edit

The pitfalls of generational thinking

Taking collective action on climate change requires that we avoid privatising and depoliticising the problems we want to solve.

By Jonathan White

/ 15 May 2018

Brexit, populism and the promise of agency

In a world experienced as one of out-of-control forces, all the more irresistible at the transnational level, how welcome for many would be the promise to reassert control?

By Jonathan White

/ 2 Feb 2017

The left-right divide makes a comeback in the European elections

For two decades after the Cold War, observers of European democracy talked of the end of Left-Right politics. This week’s Euro-Parliamentary election results are one piece of evidence to suggest something different has occurred.

By Jonathan White

/ 29 May 2014