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The Tattooed Infidel at the Pentagon

Pete Hegseth’s rise to Defence Secretary marks the moment Christian nationalism stopped playing insurgent and started running the world’s most powerful war machine.

Rachel Reeves delivering her spring statement in the Commons. Photograph: House of Commons

This is Austerity

Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement confirms what many suspected: Labour has embraced austerity not as necessity, but as ideology.

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Good Night and Thank you

Trump doesn’t defeat his opponents; he casts them, turning liberal conscience into spectacle, and transforming critique into the very script that keeps him centre stage.

Owen Copper and Erin Doherty in a still image from the Netflix series Adolescence.

The Boys Are Not Alright

A Minister for Men cannot rebuild the infrastructures of solidarity that were torn apart by decades of neoliberal consensus.

Adolescence – The New Lost Boys

Full of unflinching realism, Adolescence is a harrowing exploration of justice, masculinity, and radicalisation, told in relentless real time. This review contains spoilers.

Andrew Tate in an interview on Anything Goes with James English, 2021

Beyond Tate

In the face of Andrew Tate’s return and his seductive brand of toxic capitalism, the left urgently needs to offer more than critique, we need a strategy to win back the young men he preys upon.