The terms left and right arent really useful anymore. It may sound slightly pompous but in a world flooded with misinformation the terms evidence-based policy and non-evidence based policy seem more suitable.

Its evidential that high levels of wealth inequality lead to poorer outcomes, that children should be kept out of poverty wherever possible and by the state if necessary, that utilities, transport networks and healthcare work better when there?s no one making a profit from them, that crime is reduced through rehabilitation and lifting people out of poverty, that high levels of immigration are necessary when birth rates are low, that trade works better with fewer barriers, and the climate emergency is currently the biggest threat to humanity.

That?s not an exhaustive list, but what many people describe as the right left the scene long ago when it comes to evidence based policy, so much so that previously accepted facts like the effectiveness of vaccines or a woman?s right to reproductive autonomy are now things to be argued about. People and policies that would previously have been considered the lunatic fringe now find themselves mainstreamed and in power. Theres a reason billionaires own newspapers, tv stations and social media platforms and that?s to promote their own interests and persuade others to vote against theirs.