Colin GarwoodBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire• Owen Jones asks of “centrists”, “Will they raise taxes on the rich and major corporations to end cuts? Self-defined centrists can of course reject this claim because they are impeccably left on identity politics and other social issues. Both identify the central political issue in the US and the UK as the economic position of the working class. Alvaro de MirandaLondon• Owen Jones has polarised the world a bit further by devising a new category to heap scorn upon. Owen Jones’ timely piece implies this when he writes “centrists aren’t pragmatists, they’re ideologues” and it is this ruling ideology that the left is challenging.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2017 17:48 UTC