With the Conservatives headed into disintegration or irrelevance, the incoming Labour government may prove the penultimate stage in the collapse of the UK political establishment. The brightness of its success in fashioning Starmer’s Labour into its instrument is the gaseous brilliance of the supernova, the efflorescence that precedes a star’s death.

Over half a century and in all this time not a year has gone by when our behemoth neighbour has not been imposing its will on some country or another: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Chile, El Salvador, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, Iran, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Is Venezuela next? In the case of Venezuela, the Canadian state is playing a much more central role.

After neoliberalism dispatched Keynesianism in the 1970s, the left was relieved of the need to confront Keynes. But as neoliberalism self-destructs in capitalism’s greatest crisis since the Great Depression, neoliberals and “third way” economists conjure up Keynesianism anew in their attempts to salvage it.