Landlord Levy? Tenants Will Pay the Price
Landlords may be targeted with national insurance on rental income, but tenants risk paying the hidden price.
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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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Landlords may be targeted with national insurance on rental income, but tenants risk paying the hidden price.
Rising costs and weak demand are squeezing UK service sector profits, but the crisis is less about jobs or output than the relentless expectation that every quarter must deliver higher margins.
Landlords may be targeted with national insurance on rental income, but tenants risk paying the hidden price.
Rising costs and weak demand are squeezing UK service sector profits, but the crisis is less about jobs or output than the relentless expectation that every quarter must deliver higher margins.
The shooter had three firearms, yet the right wing media fixates on identity instead of questioning America’s gun laws.
As Britain debates leaving the European Court of Human Rights, the clash between nationalist zeal, technocratic caution, and left-leaning legalism exposes a deeper struggle over sovereignty, immigration, and the meaning of human rights
Richard Tice and Reform UK want to lift the fracking ban, promising “billions in energy treasure” but their real ambition is corporate profit at the expense of communities and the climate.
Red Crosses, Not Unity: How St George Flags Are Being Weaponised as Symbols of Exclusion
Nigel Farage’s “Operation Restoring Justice” is nothing new. Strip away the slick staging and media amplification, and it’s the same nativist bile the BNP peddled in the 1990s, only now treated as respectable politics.
When star forwards can down tools before the season starts and still win the move, a “contract” is just a polite fiction. Isak and Igamane are the canaries in the coal mine.
Planes will never take off, but every promise of mass deportation erodes rights, normalises cruelty, and casts the mob as the voice of the nation.
The English “revolution” under the St George’s Cross is no revolution at all, but a counter-revolution, a politics of scapegoating that shields the dominant class from blame.
Scapegoating migrants is just the start. When politics legitimises fear and blame, the mob never stops, and neither does the cycle of persecution.
Keir Starmer’s law-and-order theatrics have handed the far right its new saint: a self-styled free speech Joan of Arc—except this saint didn’t want to be burned, she wanted others to be.