Politics

2025-08-26: Britain's anti-immigrant protests are infused with right-wing extremism

2025-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton.

2025-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough.

2025-08-25

Why Labour keep losing the attention war

2025-08-24: Farage's Times interview - his dystopian cruelty and proven incompetence will surely make Britain a worse place for us all

2025-08-22

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats

2025-08-16: 📚 Finished reading America, América by Greg Grandin.

2025-08-13: Only a tiny percentage of deaths in the UK result in an inheritance tax payment being due

2025-08-10

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London: Mostly for holding up a sign saying they support Palestine Action it seems.

2025-08-03

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse: There is nothing new under the sun.

2025-08-03: 📚 Want to read: Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp. The usual cheery reading. Luke Kemp surveys the …

2025-08-02

Trump fires statistics chief after soft jobs report: Shooting the messenger because he doesn’t like the unemployment stats.

2025-07-27: Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not. Our research found that economically …

2025-07-27

Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not.: Just run on progressive economic policies.

2025-07-26: The usual relationship between religion and political party in the UK - something that has really …

2025-07-17

Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK?: No, or at least not in a sane world.

Voting age to be lowered to 16 across UK by next general election

2025-07-16: Two years ago a data leak revealed the personal details of the thousands of Afghans who secretly helped the UK's armed forces in the decades long war

2025-07-12: The US and UK cuts to aid are a death sentence for millions of people

2025-06-29

How the Supreme Court’s Injunction Ruling Expands Trump’s Power: ‘The Supreme Court ruling barring judges from swiftly blocking government actions, even when they may be illegal, is yet another way that checks on executive authority have eroded’

Labour’s relationship with working class ‘broken’ as analysis reveals it is now the party of wealthy: Yougov poll results.

2025-06-20

This Pride Month, We’ve Reached Rainbow Capitalism’s End: ‘…when the culture goes in another direction, as it has especially since Mr. Trump was elected again, corporate allyship becomes corporate snubbing.’

2025-06-15: Trump’s New Post About Taylor Swift Is So Immature We Needed Child Psychologists To Explain …

2025-06-15

Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump

2025-06-15: Definitions for populism, nativism, authoritarianism