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.(...)
Hungary
Josh White / 28 Mar 2022
The Opposition Newspaper
Morning Star and the UK Left
Walking down Beachy Road, you’ll miss William Rust House if you don’t know the address.(...)
Joel Schalit / 03 Nov 2021
State and Antisemitism in Germany
The Problem With Police
The rhetoric is increasingly hollow. If only it weren’t that way.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Oct 2021
Civil Rights, Not Ethnicity
Germany’s Racism Crisis
It was a transparent failure. Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old ex-secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, had disappeared the day her trial was to begin, having been accused of complicity in the deaths of over 10,000 Jews.(...)
Joel Schalit / 21 Jul 2021
Hungary and the Jews
The Orbán-Pegasus Problem
“We work closely with Israeli media. If there’s anything you need from Hungary, don’t be afraid to ask,” the young woman informed me.(...)
John Foster / 18 Dec 2020
No Future Forever
The Logic of Populism
One of the most oft-repeated criticisms of the left is that it has no plausible utopia to offer.(...)
John Foster / 11 Dec 2020
Populism Will Survive
Europe and the Trump Defeat
National populism seems to have been dealt a blow by the defeat of Donald Trump. Yet, like some down-market vampire in a B-grade horror flick, the scourge refuses to die.(...)
Josh White / 29 Nov 2020
New Tory Role Model
Britain Goes Hungary
The British right hoped it could ‘remake’ Britain through Brexit. Though its hopes have been exposed as dangerous fantasies, the Tories remain hooked on disaster nationalism.(...)
John Foster / 11 May 2020
Poor and Poorer
Coronavirus and the EU
The term “crisis” is applied all too freely in politics and journalism. It has become a common designation for the Coronavirus outbreak as well. (...)
Maxim Edwards / 08 Apr 2020
The Coronavirus Dictatorship Plan
Orbán’s Viral Gambit
As Hungary gets to grips with fighting the coronavirus pandemic, strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is in the spotlight of another international scandal. (...)