John Foster / 03 Mar 2023
Britain Gives Up
Post-Brexit Ireland
The end of Ireland’s Brexit crisis shouldn’t be noteworthy. As Fintan O’Toole noted in The Guardian, the Windsor Framework could have been agreed upon two years ago.(...)
Boris Johnson
Josh White / 21 Feb 2023
Lynch Mob Blog
Guido Fawkes, Phony Rebel
Guido Fawkes is the kind of media that can destroy reputations in minutes. Sometimes deservedly, but not always.(...)
John Foster / 16 Dec 2022
Fantasy Island
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll
It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 26 Oct 2022
Transcending the Crisis
Streetlands, by Burial
Burial’s new Streetlands EP may be his most beautiful work to date.(...)
John Foster / 21 Oct 2022
Nothing to See Here
Truss and the Trump Legacy
Don’t blame the Tories. She was never fit for office. That’s the standard line.(...)
John Foster / 10 Sep 2022
The Irish Abyss
Truss and the Backstop
The Tories believe they’re the most consistent party in British politics.(...)
Josh White / 05 Sep 2022
Race to the Bottom
The Liz Truss Plunger
If Prime Minister Liz Truss is the joke, Britain is the punchline.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 01 Aug 2022
Life Under Thatcher
Working for the Iron Lady
It’s remarkable how candidates in the Tory leadership race have channelled Margaret Thatcher. Especially as they're barely old enough to have experienced her policies.(...)
John Foster / 29 Jul 2022
The Antisemitism Party
Labour and the Forde Report
The Forde Report represents a new stage of the malaise afflicting the Labour Party.(...)
Josh White / 18 Jul 2022
Last Days of Neoliberalism
London 2012 Nostalgia
Take the Overground to Hackney Wick. Get off there and walk into the nearby maze of decay and graffiti. Believe it or not, this is not far from the regeneration hub of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.(...)