Five Most Popular Posts in August

And what a brief month it was! In posting terms, anyway. Here's what tickled the fancy of the internet travelling public. Not that they had much to choose from. 1. The New Road to Serfdom 2. What Was the Point? 3. On Rearranging Deckchairs 4. Tinashe - Melatonin 5. Local Council By-Elections August 2026 Taking the top this month was my review of Jodi Dean's latest book on class dynamics. It looks at how capitalist relations of production are not just producing a new oligarchy, but are beginning to undermine themselves and give birth to new forms of power that resemble feudal class relations. I'm still not sold on the term feudal or neo-feudal getting thrown around to describe this process, but the relationships she describes and their trajectories sound compelling. In at second was Nigel Farage's unnecessary by-election. He won, of course, but not the kind of utterly overwhelming mandate he expected. Especially from a field littered with joke candidates. The episode demonstrates how…