David Swift

David Swift is a historian and writer based in London. His new book, A Left for Itself, criticises the insularity and performative radicalism of the contemporary Left.

Articles

Labour’s eternal rift: the pub or the party

Culture
Society

Left-wing politics in Britain has often been divided between a tradition that embraced popular culture and the abstemious, Nonconformist tradition that rejected it. Are they destined to clash forever?