Britain is sliding towards billionaire politics: Is Labour too timid to stop it?: ‘The conditions that allow extreme wealth to dominate politics, such as rising campaign costs, sophisticated digital campaigning, and weak transparency rules, are present here too’.
Politics
2026-03-22: Timothy Snyder on why the No Kings protests are important
2026-03-22
2026-03-21
GB News has become Reform TV and no one stopped it: Yet another example of Britain’s regulators proving entirely inadequate.
2026-03-21: A short visual history of US interference with Iran
2026-03-08
New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’: A rare bright spot in the smorgasbord of disappointment from the UK’s Labour government.
2026-02-27: The Greens win the Gorton and Denton by-election by a whopping 12 percentage points
2026-02-22: From NPR: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is urging broadcasters to air more …
2026-02-22: Our American friends continue with their gratifying propensity to name their legislative bills with …
2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right
2026-02-17: $15 million of USAID's former budget seized to provide protection for 1 Trump official
2026-02-17
The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’
2026-02-16
Where are all the ‘Don’t tread on me’ Americans?: ‘If you oppose tyranny, the people of Minneapolis are your brothers and sisters in arms, regardless of what you think about immigration.’
2026-02-07: The Spanish Prime Minister outlines the urgent moral and pragmatic case for warmly welcoming immigrants to our shores
2026-02-05: Despicable sex crimes aside, Jeffrey Epstein aimed to orchestrate 'the downfall of the global order'
2026-02-04: The enshittification of the United States of America
2026-02-02
The enshittification of American hegemony: Countries as platforms.
2026-02-01
2026-01-30
How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’
2026-01-29: When it came down to it, totally predictably, big tech chose to support the baddies
2026-01-24: Harry Shukman goes undercover to discover what is really going on behidn the scenes of the British far right movement in his 'Year of the Rat'
2026-01-10: No Briton is less patriotic than Tommy Robinson
2026-01-06: FTSE 100 CEOs have already earned more than you probably will all year
2026-01-05: The NYT and WaPo knew the US was going to abduct President Maduro in advance
2026-01-04: Yet more of the apparent hypocrisy: November 28 2025: Trump issues a full pardon to ex-Honduran …
2026-01-04: Weird date coincidence (I assume): January 3 1990: US captures Panamas’s ruler Noriega on …