The standard argument for backing hawkish centre-left parties remains the ‘lesser evil’. Lorna Finlayson interrogates that line of reasoning and the assumptions on which it rests: crude consequentialism, narrow minded electoralism and covering up the realities of Starmer’s Labour.
Lorna Finlayson on Katrina Forrester, In the Shadow of Justice. The gestation of Rawlsian justice theory, marked by postwar neoliberal thought and Oxford ‘ordinary language’ philosophy.