Brexit

Nigel Farage’s Reform party has attracted significant support by those disgruntled with establishment parties in the UK, but its voters have very different views on key economic questions. Zain Asaf has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto....

The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in...

The track record of the far right, when it has wielded power, has been pretty dismal. The UK is still reeling economically from its exit from the European Union, a departure orchestrated by Nigel Farage and his band of xenophobes. Despite...

Today, Sunday, Sweden is holding a general election, but like most of Europe this once liberal nation has moved very far to the right Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael...

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has left a legacy of death and...

This monthly report is prepared for Sinocism by the excellent Sinification , an invaluable resource for understanding how domestic and international affairs are debated within the Chinese establishment. — Bill --- Note: The summaries included in this digest were drafted with AI...

British politics has never been the same since Brexit. Deepak Tripathi, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He blogs at Reflections . Among his latest...

British politics is in a convulsive state. After 14 years in power, the Conservative Party has lost public support, and the Tony Blair version of the Labor Party is out of gas. Centrist Keir Starmer has just resigned to make...

Only a popular uprising against globalist leaders in Europe and their proxy in Ukraine, will do A Sustainable Peace in Ukraine: Diplomacy, Neutrality, and the Limits of the Current Order Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from...

What neither side can admit is that neither Brexit UK nor the EU has achieved any success in the past decade. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a co-founder of the Stop the...

History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux : Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo is in...

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour...

In what sense could it be useful to show that western society is suffering from something analogous to schizophrenia? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week’s essay on the importance of psychological factors...

Trade union strength has weakened in the baby boomer era partly because the supply workers have been abundant – a tighter labour market in the context of population decline could act as a boon to worker organising. Jeremiah Nollenberger is a researcher...

Britain’s recent local elections revealed more than a routine midterm backlash. Labour’s heavy losses, the continuing erosion of Conservative support, and the rise of the far-right Reform UK point towards a deeper crisis unfolding within one of the West’s traditional...

Andy Burnham is favourite to win the Makerfield by-election, which could put him on course to be British Prime Minister. But will a Burnham-run Britain actually be any different from a Starmer-run Britain? Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A...

Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. In the United States, but also...

Keir Starmer has failed on every front and is on his way out, whether the next Prime Minister can stop Farage getting the top job will depend on whether he or she really changes direction. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief...

Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack...

As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical and symbolic politics can help...

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . On a recent episode of the London Review of Books’ podcast On Politics, James Butler hosted a conversation about the current state of Britain’s Labour Party with Sienna Rodgers (deputy editor...

The latest war-driven global price panic is not an aberration but a constant state of being in the contemporary global economic. It is all so unstable that unless we take a new course, it will fall down sooner or later. Robin...

The UK is in a doom loop and the Labour government has got no idea how to escape it. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog...

Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine Action, an activist organization that was banned in the summer of 2025. The High...

What is currently occurring in the UK is happening in most Western nations. Here a good analysis of what has gone wrong and what now needs to be done. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield...

What Aurelien does not appear to understand is that it was the union of workers and middle class that enabled progressive politics. The PMC alone is the Green Party, which eventually becomes far-right. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to...

The Central Bank of Ireland is complicit in Israel’s genocide and regime of apartheid by facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds throughout the European Union. Its role in the funding of the most unspeakable crimes must end immediately. For the...

Shutterstock The nightmare is over. The vanquished beast has crawled back to Mar-a-Lago to lick his wounds. The heroes are hard at work repairing the damage. As America returns to the international stage, the world heaves a collective sigh of relief. That,...