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The pro-Palestinian cause and the seduction of extremism

How to revive Britain after the Tories and Brexit have battered it into the ground

Maybe Britain isn’t broken

Rishi Sunak: The UK's failed extremist

Salman Rushdie and the tedium of terrorism

​“Liz Truss does not understand a word I write,” says her favourite author

Liz Truss's eyes still shine with a bright, self-righteous fanaticism, as if backlit by an idiot’s lantern

The Weekend Roundup: Waiting for a War

How England sold its justice system to the global rich

The intellectual dark web proves the left was right all along

Sickness, wokeness and the limits of language policing

The Conservatives have cursed the UK

The betrayal of Ukraine and Germany’s misreading of history

The terror that dares not speak its name: Fear and silence in the UK

If the British monarchy falls, the monarchists will have killed it

Trump and the far right are up for sale

We’re just waiting for the terrorists to strike us again

I believe Labour offers the UK an escape from decline*

Keir Starmer: the nicest ruthless bastard you could hope to meet

This time the UK’s decline is real

Can Keir Starmer finish off the radical right?

Gaza, Ukraine and the decline of the West

George Galloway and rise of an Islamist foreign policy

What Europe’s struggle against fascism can teach the US

Can nothing halt the UK’s decline?

Trump, Putin and the lost anti-fascist cause

Threats of violence bring fascistic menace to UK politics

Everybody move to the right!

Rochdale the UK's capital of conspiracy theory

Three constant facts about the state of the UK

Are Jews in danger?

Why US Republicans hate Ukrainian democracy

The radical right turns paranoid

Are US progressives playing into Trump’s hands?

Think too hard about the culture war and you will surely go mad

Radicalised conservatives cannot save themselves (Or their country)

The first Labour government and the next Labour government

A serious country would face the Brexit disaster: the silly and scared UK can't do it

Fear and lies in a world of fakes

Trump persuades British Tories to betray their country

It’s time to abandon winner-takes-all politics in Israel

Psycho bosses will ruin us all!

Conservatives would rather keep the country poor and stupid than accept their failure

Freedom is not the preserve of the "Christian" West

Crimes and lies in Gaza

​You don’t fight antisemitism by feeding the prejudices of Trump and the world’s worst anti-Muslim bigots

On the world historical importance of pandering to middle-class, middle-brow, mid-western voters

It will take a missile hitting the BBC to shake the cosy stupidity of UK politics

Writing for Substack

Will the radical right take over the Tories?

Weekend round up: Just one damned thing after another

The lies of the Gaza conflict will haunt us

How reputable Conservatives paved the way for Trump and Brexit

Farewell to 2023 (part two)