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Tony Blair’s so-called “reset” on climate policy is nothing more than a polished plea to preserve the capitalist system that created the crisis, sacrificing the planet to protect the profits of the few
On Natasha Brown’s Universality
In Notes to John, Joan Didion records the slow failure of the defences she spent a lifetime building — and in doing so, leaves behind a final, unflinching act of courage
Britain is broken, but not in the way Nigel Farage imagines. In his vision, mass deportations and the dismantling of human rights law will somehow reverse decades of decline
In the society of the spectacle, even death must pose for the camera, and what is buried is not only the body but the last fragile hope that anything might remain untouched by the churn of images
Nigel Farage’s rise is not simply the product of voter disillusionment but the result of a liberal media too fearful, too compromised, and too complicit to confront the reactionary politics they helped create.
Ash Sarkar’s Minority Rule and Michael Chessum’s This Is Only the Beginning chart the rise and fall of Britain’s radical left, exposing a movement that was too principled to win and too polite to fight.