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The most popular politician in Britain is setting off south to claim his throne, a second coming heralded by Viktor Schlatte as Labour’s last chance to revive its fortunes, via Burnham’s unabashed localist leftism.

#AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #UnitedKingdom #Politics
Burnham Or Bust
It is becoming increasingly apparent that Keir Starmer’s dismal time in office is coming to an end. Following historic losses in this month’s local elections, more than 90 Labour MPs have publicly cal...
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May 15, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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The European project is vanishing beneath illiberal tumours reared as its own – a cancer only combatable by sketching the cultural system of identity and exclusion sustaining illiberalism, argues Tinatin Inauri.

#Europe #EU #Liberalism #Illiberalism #Politics #Geopolitics
Europe’s Illiberal Identity Crisis
In the aftermath of the Cold War, scholars such as Francis Fukuyama argued that liberal democracy represented the final stage of ideological evolution, famously framing it as “the end of history.” How...
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April 3, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Invited to cover An Evening With Zarah Sultana, Anoushka Singh was disconcerted by reliance on Gaza and fearmongering over fascism, leaving Sultana little more than a marker of an imagined radicalism.

#ZaraSultana #YourParty #Politics #UnitedKingdom #Socialism
An Evening With Zarah Sultana
I had the opportunity to attend An Evening With Zarah Sultana at the University of Surrey, graciously hosted by Amelie Abass. As I entered the building, socialist campaigners unaffiliated with the uni...
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March 31, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Cases for an Irish reunification poll are premature and immature, vitiated by their intellectual shallowness and occlusion of extremist roadblocks on all sides, argues G. Armstrong.

#NorthernIreland #Ireland #UnitedKingdom #Politics
New Ireland, Éire Nua, Airlan’, Anew United Ireland – However Written, Unification Drives are Untimely and Unwise
If you follow mainstream Irish and Northern Irish press, you may have noticed an uptick this past year in articles referencing “Irish reunification” or “border poll”. There is a push by aligned Irish ...
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March 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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A vanishing nightlife, resolutely unaffordable rents, and an AI-precipitated implosion in graduate jobs have left London odious to the youth making up most of the city, argues Eliot Lord.

#London #Youth #UnitedKingdom #Economics #Environment
London Is(n't) a Place for the Young
Every Thursday, I embark on a cross-London journey from South West to North West London, for a jazz choir that I love being a part of. All members are older than me, with the second youngest member of...
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March 28, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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The student loans scam strikes both at the avarice of boomers who have so exploited their children, and at Labour’s existential need to dump these patronising pensioners, argues Thomas Wilford.

#UnitedKingdom #Education #Finance #Pensions #University
Snakes that Pull the Ladder
In recent weeks, eyes and ears have been focusing on the Middle East. Starmer’s hesitancy to go in behind the Americans and Israelis with all guns blazing has gone down well with the public, and his o...
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March 27, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Trump’s callous treatment of the common man – ballooning his bills and carting him off as cannon fodder – is as exhaustive as it is egregious, argues Jasper Goddard.

#Trump #Iran #UnitedStates #Geopolitics #Politics
Trump's War Against The Common Man
“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” These were the words of Donald Trump, the self-described “President of Peace”, as he railed against America’s interventions in foreign lands ins...
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March 26, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Beneath SW1’s radicalised, multi-party war of all against all, an entrenched politics of orthodoxy has blossomed – dictated by debt and the foreign policy inertia to which all middling powers are condemned – argues Charles Cann.

#Politics #UnitedStates #UntedKingdom #Europe
The Psychotrauma Politics of the West are Getting Old, and Becoming Quite Boring With It.
Politics have become quite boring today. This is not to say that the news is uneventful – five minutes of doomscrolling will quickly put paid to that idea. And the humanitarian cost of it all is mount...
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March 25, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Lamenting spiralling standards in British politics, Awadallah Abdalla sketches the evaporation of principled politics, nevertheless identifying glimmers of hope for the Tories, and prophesying a hubristic demise for Starmer & co.

#UnitedKingdom #Politics #Starmer #Tories #ReformUK #GreenParty
Parliamentary Democracy Is Under Threat After Gorton & Denton, But Not For The Reasons You Think
The epithet “they are all as bad as each other” has increasingly become a mantra up and down the country, much to the dismay of canvassers and candidates alike. Green, Tory, Labour, and Reform voters ...
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March 24, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Britain is close to broken, and progressive politics’ dearth of resonance with fractured communities means we must look elsewhere, argues G. Armstrong in advancing a revivified, values-based Britishness.

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#UnitedKingdom #Britain #Politics #Society
Everywhere We Look is a Sense of Fracture – The Antidote is Radically Reasserting Britishness
There is a pervasive sense of societal fracture these days. Politics has become defined by dramatic narratives of battle between the Greens and Reform UK based on story rather than rooted in reality. ...
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March 23, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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AI-supercharged porn has taken social media by storm, constructing “synthetic fetish economies” destined to deleteriously warp mankind’s sexuality, argues Mischa Gerrard.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Sexuality #Gender #Pornography
The Rise of “Synthetic Fetish Economies”: Artificial Intelligence and the Next Phase of Online Pornography
Last month, the BBC reported on a growing cluster of Instagram accounts posting AI-generated images and videos of women with disabilities – including Down’s syndrome, amputations and even fabricated “...
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March 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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International law now binds the European states who fashioned it, leaving them egregiously incapable of acting against, and therefore accessories to, dictatorships like Iran, argues Gabrielle Apfel.

#Law #InternationalLaw #Geopolitics #Politics #Iran
International Law's Painful Paradox
International law was created to act as a check on unrestrained power, yet in practice is only effective at controlling states who are willing to conform, leaving those states whom international law w...
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March 15, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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Gilliam, Baudrillard and Orwell must be marshalled to disclose the uniquely masochistic mania which defines Putin’s Russia, argues Arthur Horsey.

#Russia #Authoritarianism #Orwell #Ukraine #War
‘State System of Terror’: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Domestic Suppression
‘For any government official or despot, power over his own people takes precedence over everything else’- Jean Baudrillard In Terry Gilliam’s Kafkaesque black comedy Brazil (1985), Sam Lowry, a low-ra...
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March 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Riot-inducing British food insecurity long predates present Fleet Street fretting, argues Charles Cann in this deconstruction of a structural security problem leaving Whitehall ever more reliant on Washington.

#UnitedKingdom #Politics #Farmers #Food #Agriculture
There’s Nothing New Under the Sun: We Need to Be Realistic About the UK’s Perennial Vulnerability to Food Insecurity
Recent weeks have seen alarming headlines suggest that the UK risks serious strife due to limited food production capacity, thereby touching on something that makes the public feel vulnerable at a vis...
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March 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Naif Al Bidh problematises the obfuscatory damage wrought by the word Yemen, valorising instead the inextinguishable cultural undercurrents militating, always and rightly, for an independent South Yemen/Arabia.

#Yemen #Arabia #MiddleEast #Geopolitics
Secessionism and Regionalism: The Case of South Yemen–and South Arabia?
The prolonged war in Yemen, which has been locked in a stalemate for a decade, has now entered a new stage. The Southern Transitional Council (STC), supported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a majo...
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March 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Starmer’s legalism is a mere veneer for a religious devotion to his own legitimacy argues Sam Hunter, disturbed by Starmer’s seemingly fair-weather faith, and inspired by Thomas Carlyle’s divination of true faith’s value.

#UnitedKingdom #Politics #Labour #KeirStarmer
There Is Nothing Unprecedented About Plotting Against The PM
For the past six months, Westminster has been swirling with rumours that the Prime Minister’s days are numbered. Commentators have been split as to whether the Prime Minister would be challenged follo...
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March 7, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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This World Book Day, Nicholas Greenhalgh urges us to spare a thought for the librarians who make an art of reading, and who have kept it alive amidst a decade of austerity in schooling.

#WorldBookDay #Literacy #Reading #Education #Opinion
It’s World Book Day - Thank Your Librarian
I am not a fast, nor an avid, reader of books. The news and social media sure. TV, films, music, audio books, podcasts, YouTube videos; all are seductively unchallenging compared to sitting down and r...
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March 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Urging Polanski to reckon with the vicious ‘perma-class’ ensconcing Britain’s levers of power - G. Armstrong lauds his embrace of the conflictual psychology required for such SW1 skullduggery.

#GreenParty #ZackPolanski #UnitedKingdom #Politics
Polanski 2029: What Lies in Wait for the Government of Everyday Communities?
Three years on from a sweeping victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Polanski becomes Prime Minister, presiding over an undefeatable Green Party majority in the House of Commons. The people of...
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March 4, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Water companies wreak death and havoc amounting to organised crime, argues Freya Ebeling in urging Brits to help the hit docudrama Dirty Business put the environment, warts and all, back on SW1’s agenda.

#Politics #UnitedKingdom #EpsteinFiles #PrinceAndrew #Water
Dirty Business
Trigger Warning - mention of suicide & violence & sickening greed / minor spoiler alert“You know what it is,” says Ash. “It’s the free jazz. If that gets out…”In the concluding episode of Joseph Bullm...
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March 3, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Epstein’s grasping attempts at connecting with Gaddafi are a rare window into both his avarice and the West’s odious infatuation with authoritarian stability, argues Eddie Monkman.

#EpsteinFiles #Gaddafi #MiddleEast #Geopolitics
Gaddafi, Epstein, And The West's Avaricious Ends-Means Problem
The slew of Epstein file releases have exposed the grim realities of the mechanics that have kept certain elite networks operating. The trafficking of young women and girls for sex has rightly dominat...
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March 2, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Neither Saddam’s poisonous personalism nor the Taliban’s schizophrenic leadership structure afflict Iran, warns James Calderon in this deconstruction of the regime’s resolve and US-Israeli unthinking opportunism.

#Iran #Khamenei #Israel #UnitedStates #Trump #Gulf
Iran Is Neither Iraq Nor Afghanistan
As this article goes to press, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has reportedly been killed in a joint U.S.–Israeli airstrike. His death marks the most dramatic escalation in U.S.–Iran tensions sin...
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March 1, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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The high walls and great egos of Broadcasting House made the BBC a rare exception to the People’s Princess’s charms, contributing to her death and aggravating her subsequent haunting of British public life, argues Cody Forster.

#BBC #UnitedKingdom #RoyalFamily #PrincessDiana #Britain
The Beastly BBC, The People’s Princess, And Their Dreadfully Long Shadows
It was a grey, overcast Thursday after a dreary day of sixth form when I saw Prince William step out, with eyes fixed and ready, to deliver a statement pertaining to BBC impropriety regarding the acqu...
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March 1, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Bloodless, harmonious, lasting integration, or a dormant cancer? Emrah Roni Mira ponders how the tentative rapprochement between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces ought to be seen.

#Syria #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #Military #Politics #Kurdistan
Integrated Syria: The Integration of the SDF and the Status of the Kurds
The beginning of 2026 marked a historic turning point in relations between the transitional government led by Ahmed Shara and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria. The military defeat of the SD...
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February 28, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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£292 billion of student debt is an imminently disastrous time bomb – but craven bracing for impact can be replaced by casting off the manacles of privatised Keynesianism, argues Andrés De Miguel.

#UnitedKingdom #Students #Finance #Economy #Universities
Student Loans and the Mind-forged Manacles of Privatised Keynesianism
Student loans are in the news again. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision to freeze the repayment threshold of Plan 2 student loans for 3 years after April 2027 has caused an uproar among students who w...
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February 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Yankee casualwear’s British renaissance ought to be stoppered in favour of Euro-chic, the latter exemplifying our cosmopolitanism, continental elegance, and European fraternity, argues Freya Ebeling.

#Brexit #Politics #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates #Fashion #Transatlantic
Ballet Flats, Blazers and Brexit
One can only hope that the recent revival of 2016’s fashion trends and mood is ironic. Throughout the 2010s, British fashion was largely casual, often erring on the side of slouchy. From all corners o...
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February 27, 2026 at 9:36 AM