Josh White / 23 Jan 2023
Guilty as Charged
Nigel Farage’s Legacy
Brexit will turn three on the last day of January, over six years since the 2016 referendum kickstarted Britain’s race to the bottom.(...)
Nigel Farage
Josh White / 10 Jan 2023
The Gender-Capital Complex
Platforming Andrew Tate
Before his arrest, Andrew Tate was just another influencer with bad politics.(...)
Josh White / 04 Jul 2022
Enemies Within
The Press vs. the Workers
Not everyone can handle TV appearances, least of all on live TV shows. No one expected RMT leader Mick Lynch to do so well in televised clashes with broadcast journalists.(...)
Josh White / 04 Jan 2021
The Meaning of Brexit
Bonfire of National Illusions
I keep trying to forget about Brexit, but the Leavers won’t let us. Brexiteers are triumphant, though not all of them feel so victorious – despite getting almost everything they wanted. At least the Tories will have to own this failure.(...)
Joel Schalit / 13 Jul 2020
Brexit Anti-Colonialism
Imperial Victimhood Scam
On 23 June 2016, the country that had ruled over the largest empire in history voted to "take back control".(...)
Josh White / 22 Jun 2020
Nazi-Occupied Britain
The Far-Right Threat
On 16 June 2016, Thomas Mair ambushed Labour MP Jo Cox at the library where she held her surgery. This should have been just another day in her constituency. But it wasn’t.(...)
Josh White / 13 Nov 2019
Start-Up Populism
From PayPal to Brexit
The Brexit Party revolves around London millionaires. Former metals trader Nigel Farage is the face of the party, while Leave.EU founders Richard Tice and Arron Banks keep the campaign flush with cash.(...)
Josh White / 28 Oct 2019
The Heart of Darkness
The Dominic Cummings Problem
We all love bad guys. We love to watch them rise and fall. But most of all we have a stake in ‘bad guys’ because it means we can play the good guys.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 18 Oct 2019
Nostalgia for a Lost Future
Pinch’s Border Control EP
From its opening moments, the new Border Control EP from Bristol dubstep legend Pinch channels the time when that culturally and geographically eccentric city in the western United Kingdom felt like the centre of the universe. (...)
Josh White / 25 Sep 2019
UK 1, Johnson 0
Britain’s Constitutional Crisis
Parliament may have been saved, but the UK is still hurtling towards a cliff edge. The Brexit crisis goes to the heart of what kind of country we want to live in.(...)