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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.
Adam Curtis’s latest series attempts to diagnose the collapse of public trust in Britain—but without his voice, a clear argument, or fresh material, Shifty drifts through the ruins of the neoliberal age, recycling fragments and offering atmosphere where once there was clarity.