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Labour Government

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.

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Charlie Kirk

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.

Donald J Trump

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.

Britain

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.
Camilla Tominey

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.

Britain

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.

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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.

The Hug That Promised Violence

At Reform’s conference, Nigel Farage embraced Lucy Connolly — a woman jailed for calling on people to burn migrant hotels. The hug was no act of compassion, but a consecration: the moment hate speech was reborn as maternal instinct and offered legitimacy on the national stage.

The Jigsaw Candidate

Robert Jenrick talks about “rudimentary prisons” for asylum seekers like he’s designing another trap in Saw. Each proposal crueller than the last, each one a trial run for his Tory leadership bid.

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Phase Two: Marching to Farage’s Drum

Labour’s pause on refugee family reunion isn’t “orderly management”; it’s capitulation to a far-right script that makes cruelty the price of credibility and turns love into a means-tested privilege.

The Flag and the Mask

What begins with bunting on lamp posts and red crosses daubed on roundabouts ends with masked men storming a hotel in West Drayton. Patriotism is the alibi; nationalism the reality; fascism the direction of travel.