The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument.

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

In any system, there will be change happening without you.

There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat themselves a lot at the person, that will convince them. And that hasn't worked on things like immigration or trade deals.