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  • This is not your grandad’s flag: Welcome to Farage’s Britain

    24 Aug, 2025
    Conservative Party, Labour Party, Politics, Reform UK, X/Twitter
    london, news, Politics, Reform UK
    This is not your grandad’s flag: Welcome to Farage’s Britain

    The flag-bearing racists, once a niche subsection of an increasingly fractured society, are out in force, ‘coating’ England with their nationalist symbol. Make no mistake: this is not your grandad’s flag of St George. It is a symbol of British fascism.

  • How conflict in Iran may redraw global oil trade routes

    22 Jun, 2025
    Business, Politics
    economy, geopolitics, Iran, Israel, Middle East, War
    How conflict in Iran may redraw global oil trade routes

    Rapid infrastructural investments and diversification away from the Gulf trade routes will need to accelerate if Western economies are to reestablish energy security.

  • Musk versus the world

    25 Sep, 2024
    Business, Politics, Social Media, X/Twitter
    Bolsonaro, Brazil, Elon Musk, Trump, twitter, With credit to pagesix.com for featured image
    Musk versus the world

    Musk is a simple-minded individual, charmed by bullish businessmen. With a loose tech-era ideology of anarchistic neoconservatism, he influences hundreds of millions of news feeds and young minds.

  • Is there a spin doctor in the house?

    6 Sep, 2024
    Democratic Party, Labour Party, Politics
    Democrats, Kamala Harris, Keir Starmer, Labour, UK Politics, US Politics, With credit to IntelligenceSquaredPlus for cover photo
    Is there a spin doctor in the house?

    Labour has returned in 2024. The centre-left parties of the West are finally arriving at a troubling consensus: if the far-right is immovable, then we must adapt around it. The Labour Party needs a spin doctor.

  • Ten Years to Save the West: Truss’ mad memoir

    10 Aug, 2024
    Conservative Party, Politics
    Ten Years to Save the West: Truss’ mad memoir

    Truss likes to talk herself up as a kind of anarchistic agitator in government, proudly claiming to be a “contrarian”, someone who advocates abolishing the status quo. I would argue a politician and their career can be defined best not by their self-descriptors but by their actions, and she strikes me as a bewildered reactionary.…

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