Breaking My Resolution My New Year’s resolution was to quit pro-Trump and pro-Farage forums and Facebook groups. But in the run-up to this week’s local elections, I broke that self-imposed ban to assess the prospects of Reform UK. National Trends, Local Anomalies Nationally, Labour aren’t defending many seats, so despite Starmer’s lacklustre popularity, they’re unlikely … Read more
Imagine a right-wing regime where private business and authoritarian politics are so closely intertwined that the boundary between the two ceases to exist. A system where businessmen sit at the cabinet table, making decisions not for the public good, but to further their own corporate interests. In this world, politics and profit collude. The demand … Read more
30 Years Later: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism Today marks 30 years since the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history: the Oklahoma City bombing. On the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, an ex-Army soldier and security guard, parked a rented Ryder truck filled with a bomb made from … Read more
Back when the Conservatives were in power, they launched a high-profile public inquiry into child abuse and grooming gangs in Rotherham—a Labour-controlled local authority. They didn’t do the same for Bradford (then Conservative-run), Blackpool (variously governed by Labour and Tories), or Doncaster (at the time, run by the English Democrats—now part of Reform UK). This … Read more
Should Canada Join the U.S.—or Should the U.S. Just Move South? One of Donald Trump’s more bizarre proclamations was the suggestion that Canada could become part of the United States. His followers dutifully followed suit, referring to the Canadian Prime Minister as “Governor.” But if Trump’s fantasy ever came true, the joke would be on … Read more
