A biography for Ash Sarkarhasn’t been written yet.
“You can't debunk memes with facts. It's like bringing tap-shoes to a gunfight.”
“Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.”
“Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please.”
“The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the status quo. It's about actively creating consent for meaningful change, and expanding democratic participation beyond a second referendum.”
“Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.”
“Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.”
“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.”
“Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.”
“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 the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports.”
“Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.”
“If you want any hope of staying in the EU, or having a Brexit that doesn't mean capitulation to ethno-nationalism, you've got to tie it to a wider vision of political and economic transformation.”
“Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.”
“Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on inside them, and what happens after people are released.”
“I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.”
“Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things you had previously thought were fine.”
“But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you'd call that communism. I think in the future, we'll have to call that common sense.”
“As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.”
“I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.”
“I believe that nothing so arbitrary as money should be able to come between a person and the means of survival. And that's a really fancy way of saying that it doesn't matter if you're poor - you should have top-quality health care.”
“This is what people have been missing: politics shouldn't be about the dour cultishness and pomposity that dominated the left for decades - it should be joyful and exuberant.”