John Foster / 24 Mar 2023
Buried in the Past
The DUP’s Northern Ireland
“Not all people live in the same now.” Penned by Ernst Bloch to account for the rise of the Nazis, the 1935 truism could just as well apply to today’s Europe.(...)
Boris Johnson
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.(...)
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.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 01 Nov 2022
A Story of Decline
Goodbye United Kingdom: Publisher’s Foreword
Josh White came of age under New Labour, when Britain was cool and things could only get better.(...)
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.(...)
Josh White / 14 Mar 2022
Lord of Siberia
Boris Johnson’s Oligarch
Walking into Hampton Court Park, you might expect to get away from the hectic flux of London. You’d be right. (...)
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.(...)