A.Stringer<p>One side – let’s call them the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/pragmatists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pragmatists</span></a> – view <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> purely in terms of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/policies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policies</span></a> enacted and material change on the ground. The other – let’s call them the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/idealists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idealists</span></a> – see a role for demonstrating their principles and modelling them in public. It is a debate that has simmered for centuries, and yet seems to catch each new <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politicalgeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalgeneration</span></a> unawares."</p><p><a href="https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6399" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newhumanist.org.uk/articles/63</span><span class="invisible">99</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/labourparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labourparty</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/labourpartyhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labourpartyhistory</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/labourpartypolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labourpartypolitics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourPartyphilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourPartyphilosophy</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labourvalues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labourvalues</span></a></p>