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.(...)
Democracy
Josh White / 20 Jun 2022
Triumph of the Press
Carole Cadwalladr Beats Arron Banks
British media is less free than it says. Not because it’s dependent on sponsors for funding. But because UK libel law allows the rich to sue the press for criticising them.(...)
Josh White / 05 Jan 2022
The Toxic Tory
Boris Johnson’s Legacy
Boris Johnson will be out of power by 2023. He will be dragged out, kicking and screaming, by his own party.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 22 Dec 2021
Hip-Hop Spring
Jolfa, by Alexie Ivanovich
People often speak of a need to express themselves in music. But few in the West contend with the difficulties that face Iranian hip-hop artist Alexie Ivanovich.(...)
Duncan Simpson / 15 Dec 2021
Pandemic Politics Anxieties
China’s Social Credit Model, Part I
As winter descends across Europe, fears over a new surge in infections, driven by the latest Coronavirus variant, are reviving authoritarian anxieties. (...)
Ruslan Trad / 22 Nov 2021
New Regime Needed
Bulgaria’s COVID Crisis
One would think that the political crisis, the lack of government, and the third consecutive parliamentary election in a year are hard enough situations for Bulgaria.(...)
Keith Kahn-Harris / 08 Nov 2021
Oh, the Guilt
Tough Times for Fun Books
What did I do the week that the COP26 summit highlighted the drift towards climate catastrophe?(...)
The Battleground / 29 Oct 2021
Letter to Oana Cristina Popa and Catherine Wendt
Montenegrins Petition the European Commission
We are a representative group of concerned Montenegrin citizens – academics, activists, journalists and intellectuals of all genders. We do not represent any single political party or civic group in Montenegro, but we support and defend Montenegro’s status as a secular, multi-ethnic and anti-fascist society, which we believe is being threatened and even dismantled by the current government.(...)
John Foster / 30 Jul 2021
The World Neoliberalism Made
Empire of Democracy, by Simon Reid-Henry
We are living in an era of challenges to liberal democracy that would have been comprehensible to previous generations. (...)
Alexsyane Silva / 29 Apr 2021
Lisbon for Everybody
Beatriz Gomes Dias for Mayor
In Lisbon's Fall election, Beatriz Gomes Dias could become the first woman of African descent to lead the Portuguese capital, if her coalition wins a majority on the city council.(...)