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The casual cruelty of Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine

Will no one hold Nigel Farage to account?

Populist poison will break up Britain

The rise and fall of the trans movement

The rise and fall of the trans movement

Starmer cannot cope with Trump’s lawless world

Talking to the small Trump hand

There are no Star Wars endings in the Middle East

Normalising unconscionable suffering in Gaza

Don't drop the F-bomb!

Trump's tyranny get outta jail free card

Authoritarian strongmen are torturers searching for pain points

Introducing podcasts for our times

Are we about to see the destruction of Palestine?

Flying false flags and fighting fake fires: How autocrats build their power

Droning out Trump & Putin

Droning out Trump & Putin

How aristocratic snobbery wrecked the UK

Don’t ally with Elon Musk

How an embittered masculinity drives the far right

How angry men took over world

The misogyny industry

The misogyny industry

Abortion, Vance and the Americanisation of the UK right

Netanyahu, Hamas, and the politics of catastrophe

The rich will blow up the world rather than pay more tax

The great British economic disaster

How to make a living on Substack

The Stagnation nation

The Stagnation nation

Left-wing Irish bigots and right-wing British bigots: Is free speech only for my tribe?

How Trump will betray Ukraine

Fascist Russia & its religion of war

Fascist Russia & its religion of war

Fascist Russia & its religion of war

The cranks will inherit the earth!

Trump engagement syndrome: the conservatism of fools

The strange death of Conservative England

The Tories are a lost tribe

The Tories are a lost tribe

Left-wing censorship is still censorship

Putin, Trump and the subjugation of Europe

Why can’t Starmer take the fight to Farage?

Reform's remorseless rise

Reform's remorseless rise

Here lies the British Conservative party: killed by its own hypocrisy

You can’t win a battle against the radical right without fighting it

Is Trump really abandoning Putin?

Trump is out of his tiny mind – and three other lessons from Canada

How libertarians sold their souls to Trump

The road to Trumpdom

The road to Trumpdom

Europe can’t keep crawling to Trump’s USA

The road to Trumpdom

The left-right authoritarian cycle

Rights in retreat?

Rights in retreat?

If you are so rich, how come you are so left-wing?

How Hilary Mantel came to loathe the England she mythologised

Is the New Atheism old hat?

Tinker Tailor Tory Traitor

Nato is dead and America is our enemy

In denial over Trump's treachery

In denial over Trump's treachery

Defending wokeness, while opposing cancel culture

The Cancel Culture Club

The Cancel Culture Club

How not to write: 6/ Craven hypocrisy

Will Keir Starmer be the last person on earth to still trust Donald Trump?

Trump has just created boundless opportunities for corruption

As Trump’s menaces Europe – the UK doesn’t know what to do

Britain can’t muddle through this crisis

Is Starmer the right stuff to handle Trump crisis?

Is Starmer the right stuff to handle Trump crisis?

A mad king humbles American capitalism

Trump wants to force the UK to do Musk’s bidding

Hungary: the new right’s squalid dystopia

The tyranny of the Brexit minority cripples the UK

Farage's treason choice - King Don or the UK?

Farage's treason choice - King Don or the UK?

Subservience to Trump makes Boris Johnson betray his country

Three roads to hell for the West

Truth, lies and genocide: how Netanayhu and Trump pervert the fight against antisemitism

Trump is running an extortion racket not a foreign policy

Labour spares the rich and hammers the poor

Labour’s war on the poor

Tough love but is Labour lost?

Tough love but is Labour lost?

Farage’s dogs will soon turn on him

Might is right: round-up on Trump and Putin's new imperial order

Elon Musk is pushing Western democracy to breaking point

Netanyahu is exploiting antisemitism to build his dictatorial power

America silences its anti-fascist voice

Online authoritarians are poisoning our world

Online authoritarians are poisoning our world

The lethal triumph of the anti-vaxxers

Is Trump pushing Brexit Britain back into Europe?

Western conservatism collapses under the weight of MAGA

Can Europe cope with an American "thugocracy"

Is War coming our way?

Is War coming our way?

A far-right empire: Trump’s America is Europe’s new enemy

Why is it so hard to believe that Trump is a Russian asset?

Can Ukraine fight the Putin-Trump Axis?

What does Putin have on Trump?

What does Putin have on Trump?

Only Trump’s “stupid” economy can destroy him

No one can kid themselves now: Trump’s America is our enemy

Fawning before a mad emperor

Trump scares Europe more than Hitler’s grandchildren

The Big Trump Double-cross

The Big Trump Double-cross

Can Europe resist Trump’s gangsterism?

Why conservatives embrace extremism

The “king of toxic masculinity” and the death of the West

Trumpism in the UK: How to beat it

Defeating Farage & the populist right

Defeating Farage & the populist right

Trump’s true enemy isn’t China or Russia but liberal democracy

Trump, Putin and the midnight of the 21st century

A world without justice?

International law & disorder

International law & disorder

The UK cannot be Trump’s poodle

Brexit: The grift that keeps on grifting

Why always the Jews? Is antisemitism overstated?

As Trump and Putin threaten the UK, it’s time to rethink Brexit

Flogging the dead horse of Brexit

Flogging the dead horse of Brexit

Focus on the addicts not the drugs!

The Trump launderers: Making the disgraceful respectable

The West's descent into lawlessness

The Southport killings: False comfort is no comfort at all

Trump wrecking ball in full swing

Trump wrecking ball in full swing

Politics beats economics every time – as the billionaires grovelling before Trump prove

Protecting fair trials means ignoring far-right conspiracy theories

The world darkened today

The Coming Trump Terror

The Coming Trump Terror

Trump is turning Western conservatives into enemies of national security

Sex, Socrates and the source of all our errors

“Chained to a madman”– Europe and Donald Trump

“We have never seen anything like this” How Trump threatens the UK

Facing a hostile U.S

Facing a hostile U.S

Musk threatens British democracy

Why liberals go berserk: Understanding the great awokening

Musk shows how British democracy is wide open to abuse

Dark money for dark times

Dark money for dark times

Trump and Musk: Will the British right collaborate?

New Year’s listening and reading!

Anne Applebaum and the right’s authoritarian turn