'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...