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

    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.

  • Assorted thoughts on crime, veganism and happiness in Amsterdam

    Assorted thoughts on crime, veganism and happiness in Amsterdam

    One could leave Amsterdam having made friends. One is more likely to leave London, on the other hand, having made enemies.

  • How conflict in Iran may redraw global oil trade routes

    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

    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?

    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.