Late last year Mute was invited to contribute to an online debate on ‘The Good Society' and the future of European Social Democracy, in which participants were given 700 words to answer a long and windy tract by John Cruddas (UK Labour Compass group) and Andrea Nahles (German SPD).

A diagram/ drawing to explain, or hopefully partially explain the financial crisis and some of the intent behind it - at least from a UK perspective. This is an attempt produce something simple and accessible, that condenses things so that everyone can understand.

This public sector organisation committed to the production of 'cultural relations' (eg cultural relations such as voluntary redundancy, early retirement, etc) is leading the way with the global outsourcing of the UK State. This latest move is perhaps inspired by Bordiga's progressive proposal that the soviet union should be run remotely by the communist parties of other nation states, but that's by the by – it's definitely in the vanguard of retrogression.

The English translation of Roberto Esposito’s Bios appears to be an important contribution to the critical analysis of a politics of life, but can the book’s claim to ‘revitalise’ politics really be thought from within the exclusive bounds of academic philosophy? Erik Empson reviews

The ubiquitous injunction to consume ‘Your 5 a Day’ quota of fruit and vegetables seems to stand in for a whole governmental ideology of population management in contemporary Britain and beyond.