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Perfidious Albion is up to its dirty tricks again. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The tenth anniversary of Brexit provides a timely balance sheet for the impact of leaving the European Union. This...

Europe, World, Brexit

Nada vai mudar enquanto as mesmas elites de sempre seguirem governando o Reino Unido. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Keir Starmer renunciou, após atuar como primeiro-ministro por pouco menos de 2...

Português, Brexit, Keir Starmer

Turkey is the new enemy of Israel. That ball has been rolling for some time. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The unintended consequences of Trump’s Iran Deal are too many to list....

Middle East, World, Donald Trump

Nothing will change while the same old elites continue to govern the United Kingdom. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Keir Starmer resigned, after serving as prime minister for just under 2 years....

Europe, World, Brexit

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...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

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...

Archive, Europe, Secrecy

‘June 23, 2016, has gone down as the day Britain departed from the mainstream by voting to leave the European Union. In reality, British politics was a few steps ahead of the curve, as the EU itself has become a...

EU politics, EU-Institutions, National Politics

As he stood behind the Downing Street lectern, welling up, struggling to get his words out, Keir Starmer’s public resignation address signalled precisely what was such a disaster about his two years as Prime Minister. Starmer’s premiership was responsible for cutting...

Voices

Keir Starmer has resigned as leader of the Labour party, and so in time as the UK’s prime minister. In the end, despite his numerous assurances that he would fight on, after Andy Burnham’s resounding win in the Makerfield byelection,...

World, Block 4, Brexit

Voters are heading to the polls in Makerfield to choose their next MP, with popular Labour politician Andy Burnham predicted to win. This expected victory could cause trouble for the UK's current prime minister, Keir Starmer,...

World

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...

Economics, Finance, National Politics

"Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?" a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told The New Arab . The man, who is visibly Sikh and wears a...

Society

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...

EU politics, Finance, Globalisation

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...

Immigration, Kier Starmer, populism

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...

National Politics, Andy Burnham, Article

By Augustin PALOKAJ Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Ironically, we could ask: “what would have happened if enlargement had not been a priority”. The fact that never in the history of the EU has...

Editor's Choice, European Commission, European Union

A Blairite, a Brownite, a Corbynite and a Starmerite walk into a pub, and the person working behind the bar asks, “what are you drinking, Andy?” If you want a sense of Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s political compass, this...

Voices

Calls mounted late Monday for Britain's embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit, despite his pledges to prove his doubters wrong after his ruling Labour party was crushed in local and regional elections . More than 70 of...

World

The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...

Analysis

Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came out fighting Monday, vowing to prove his "doubters" wrong as he sought to quell a growing threat to his leadership following disastrous election results. Starmer pledged his ruling Labour party would be...

World

UK leader Keir Starmer said Friday he took responsibility for "very tough" local election results that saw the hard-right make big gains, but vowed to carry on as prime minister. "I'm not going to walk away and plunge the country into...

World

Britons voted Thursday in local elections set to heap more pressure on beleaguered Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and energise the rise of hard-right and left-wing populists. The ballot across Scotland, England and Wales is Starmer's biggest electoral test...

World

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...

Economics, EU politics, EU-Institutions

Political insurgents Reform UK are set to make huge gains in British local elections on Thursday, as the far-right, anti-immigrant party draws increasing support from voters. "The UK has been flooded with illegal immigrants that shouldn't be here. They're...

World

Britain's government is set to announce legislation next month to move the country closer to the European Union , as the Iran war sours the UK's so-called special relationship with the United States. President Donald Trump's unpredictability and stream of...

World

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...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

Tens of thousands of people marched through central London Saturday to protest against the far right , weeks ahead of local elections and six months after Britain saw one of its largest far-right demonstrations. Organised by hundreds of...

MENA

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...

Column, Europe, Opinion

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...

Economics, Finance, Article

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...

Finance, National Politics, Neo-Liberalism in the EU

Britain's populist Reform UK party unveiled "radical" plans on Monday to stop what it called an immigration "invasion", promising to create an agency to deport thousands of illegal migrants and to leave human rights treaties if it wins...

World

By Fraser MYERS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Britain’s right-wing vanguard has an unlikely base in the home counties. If Reform UK can be said to have a spiritual home, then Essex,...

Editor's Choice, Elections, Labor Party

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...

#Current Affairs, Civil Rights, Featured Current Affairs

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...

Austerity, Corruption, Deregulation

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure a nervous Europe on Saturday, saying Washington wanted to recharge the transatlantic alliance so a strong Europe could help the United States on its mission of global...

MENA

How Europe Plans to Strengthen Its Security with Partners beyond the United States Europe must take more responsibility for its defence, if necessary without the United States, given Washington’s volatility. In March 2025, the European Union (EU) launched a series of...

SWP Comment

Islam Times - The British Labor Party scored over the past week a major victory over the Conservative Party. It gained two-thirds of the British House of Commons while the number of seats of the Conservative Party declined to less...

UK

Britain’s trade exchanges with Iran has more than tripled since the country left the European Union, a move known as Brexit, as the value of annual trade between the two countries reached 696 million pounds in 2022, according to figures...

Uncategorized

Do we really need a new book such as "Johnson at 10" by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell to know that Boris Johnson did not have a plan for Brexit? Aren't all the disastrous aftermath consequences of Brexit enough to tell...

Article, EU, Europe & Russia

The British government has been widely reported over its controversial asylum policies to tackle the mounting number of English Channel crossings by migrants in boats, with some accusing it of "scapegoating" migrants for the country's "broken immigration policy". The increasing...

Africa, Albania, Article
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