“Attention, as well as being a commodity that can be monetised through digital platforms, is a psychological wage. We know this from when we are children: think of the heaven of basking in the glow of an attentive parent or… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The reason Brexiteers have been so effective is that they have made the fight about broad political values. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped the economic… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on inside them,… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
