Welcome to my blog, a space where I explore the intersections of politics, culture, and radical thought through a Marxist and eco-socialist lens. I write about the ways capitalism shapes our world, how it seeps into art, film, TV, and literature, and what resistance can look like.

Through essays, reviews, and analysis, I aim to unpack the forces that drive our political and economic systems, and how they shape the culture we consume and create. Whether you’re here for political theory, cultural criticism, or just searching for alternative ways to think about the world, I hope this blog offers something valuable.

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Latest Musings:

Close-up of a British two pence coin, copper-coloured, showing a heraldic lion in a crosshatched frame with fleur-de-lis corners and the words “TWO PENCE” at the top.

Rachel Reeves and the 2p Trap

The chancellor’s proposed income tax shuffle is clever accountancy but toxic politics — a pledge-break disguised as fiscal discipline, and proof that Labour has trapped itself in rules it cannot escape.

More Musings:

Close-up of a British two pence coin, copper-coloured, showing a heraldic lion in a crosshatched frame with fleur-de-lis corners and the words “TWO PENCE” at the top.

Rachel Reeves and the 2p Trap

The chancellor’s proposed income tax shuffle is clever accountancy but toxic politics — a pledge-break disguised as fiscal discipline, and proof that Labour has trapped itself in rules it cannot escape.

An illustration of a red fish (Herring) in profile against a pale background, with the words “RED TERROR” in bold black capitals beneath it.

Red Herring, Not Red Terror

David Frost calls it a new “Red Terror.” The truth is plainer: it’s the Right’s wars, coups and crackdowns that have spilt the deepest blood in politics.

The Invention of the Narco-Terrorist

Trump’s latest “kinetic strike” killed three unknown Venezuelans he labelled “narco-terrorists.” The phrase is not law but incantation, a word that strips away humanity and legitimises killing. From Vietnam body counts to Obama’s “signature strikes,” America has always named its enemies into existence, and into death.

Beyond Creeping Fascism

To call Robinson’s rally “populist” or “right-wing” is to miss the point. Fascism doesn’t require every marcher to be a coherent ideologue; it requires a mass, a scapegoat, and leaders prepared to turn grievance into violence. That is what we saw in London.

Screenshot of a Telegraph article by Camilla Tominey titled “The killing of Charlie Kirk shows just how poisonous Left-wing politics now is,” with the subheading “Speech has consequences – we have once more learnt that lesson from the horrifying events in Utah.” Below the headline is a photo showing two people in jeans holding a poster with a portrait of Charlie Kirk.

Tominey’s doublethink

Camilla Tominey’s sainthood act for Charlie Kirk trades politics for piety. The Right already owns the machinery (press, finance, courts, police) and Kirk was part of the drive shaft. A death certificate doesn’t wash clean a career built on making violence respectable.

Flatlining Growth, Rising Crisis

The ONS reports zero growth in July. The papers call it “grim news” for Rachel Reeves. In reality, it is the latest entry in a long obituary for British capitalism — a system now sustained only by euphemism, stagnation, and decline.

They never want to pay their tax

Jim Ratcliffe built his fortune on Britain’s resources and workers. Now he cries foul at Labour’s windfall tax, shuts down jobs at Grangemouth, and shifts billions abroad—all while eyeing public money for a new Manchester United stadium. The rich never change: austerity for us, subsidy for them.

A halftone, red-and-beige effect of a still from the beginning of A Bridge Too Far. An older man’s happy face fills the frame, with the subtitle “Panic.” displayed at the bottom, translating Dutch dialogue.

Starmerism in Panic Mode

Starmer’s reshuffle wasn’t about delivery but about panic—appeasing business, placating the press, and signalling to Reform voters that Labour will trade away climate policy and workers’ rights if that’s what survival in office demands.

Trump and Starmer at the White House.

The Legacy of Starmerism: Capitulation to Farage and Capital

Angela Rayner’s fall was only the spark. Behind the reshuffles and comms resets lies a Labour government without a programme, lurching toward authoritarianism and corporate capture while Britain burns. The real legacy of Starmerism will be the normalisation of far-right cruelty and the abandonment of labour itself.