Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh is a teacher, writer, and precarious worker. He writes on grassroots politics, social movements, and neoliberalism. Find him on twitter: @josipa74.

The man who tried to stop a catastrophe with a typewriter

Happy birthday to Kurt Tucholsky - the Weimar-era poet and satirist whose work has much to teach us today.

By Paul Walsh

/ 9 Jan 2020

The man who tried to stop a catastrophe with a typewriter

Berlin: precarious but not so sexy

The city has become a honey-pot for creatives, but a nightmare for many of the artists who live there.

By Paul Walsh

/ 9 Sep 2019

If Ed Miliband is the answer – then what is the question?

A pivot to the centre is the wrong medicine for Labour. More radical answers are available.

By Paul Walsh

/ 31 May 2019

If Ed Miliband is the answer – then what is the question?

It’s time for the Brexiteers to awake from their red white and blue daydream

As the government preps the nuclear bunker for no deal, those who talk of ‘delivering Brexit for the people’ seem to view the world through the high windows of a colonial office.

By Paul Walsh

/ 23 Mar 2019

It’s time for the Brexiteers to awake from their red white and blue daydream

Lexit: The biggest unicorn of them all

Lexiters who portray the EU as mostly underpinned by Hayekian neoliberalism have got it wrong, writes Paul Walsh.

By Paul Walsh

/ 18 Jan 2019

The dangers of a push-button Brexit

The 2016 vote offered a binary choice of in or out. Any new vote must expand the conversation.

By Paul Walsh

/ 6 Dec 2018

Trapped on Brexit Island

How did we get here, and how do we escape? Transforming education would be a start.

By Paul Walsh

/ 30 Aug 2018

Brexit, Corbyn and us: what disappointment can teach us about politics and ourselves

If politicians aren’t planning for disappointment then they’re not living in reality.

By Paul Walsh

/ 7 Jun 2018

Halfway to Gilead: how the alt-right’s online culture wars made hate mainstream

Breitbart himself said that “politics is downstream from culture”. Expanding what’s sayable to determine what is doable, here’s how the alt-right grew roots. Review of Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies.

By Paul Walsh

/ 19 Oct 2017

Life’s a pitch

Welcome to the new economy, where everyone is free to submit to another round of degrading competition.

By Paul Walsh

/ 22 Aug 2017