Mike Grimshaw: Buggered, knackered, no.8 – and she’ll be right…

The rise of populist politics and the crumbling of the identity and meaning of the traditional parties across the Western world have seen an increasing number of commentators declare that the old political divides of left and right are now increasingly meaningless. This is not surprising if we consider that the status quo is now some form of largely misunderstood neoliberalism of the centre that parties both center-left and center-right jockey to employ or moderate whenever they get into or near power.