'David Swift rides a coach and horses through the self-indulgence, radical chic and bloviating of too much of today's British left.' Professor John Bew, author of Citizen Clem, winner of the Orwell Prize 2017

In the first full length analysis of the rise of left-wing hobbyists, performative radicals and the 'Identity Left', A Left for Itself interrogates the connection between socio-economic realities and politico-cultural views and boldly asks what is a worthy politics, one for the follower count or one for effecting change.