Black Earth, Still Water
This book is about the fens. I live on the edge of the fens, a flat place. When the wind blows it stops for no one. But the fens are not about wind. They are about earth and water. Black earth.
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This book is about the fens. I live on the edge of the fens, a flat place. When the wind blows it stops for no one. But the fens are not about wind. They are about earth and water. Black earth.
Whipple’s Uncharted is less a chronicle of Trump’s comeback than an unflinching autopsy of a decaying liberal order that mistook gerontocracy for stability and denial for strategy
On the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers
A ruling on the definition of “woman” risks codifying exclusion into law, leaving trans women even more vulnerable in the name of protection.
The Trump–Starmer trade deal and the culture war as foreign policy
Farage’s tanks aren’t new, they’re the tanks of the 1970s, steered by mad generals and aimed squarely at working-class power.
On Tariffs, Crypto, and the Class Logic of Trump’s Economic Nationalism
In trading tax cuts for Trump’s tariff relief, Starmer hasn’t negotiated, he’s capitulated, handing the keys of British economic policy to Big Tech and calling it diplomacy.
JD Vance went to Greenland to play imperialist. He left rebuked, ridiculed, and unwelcome, a fitting emissary for a decaying superpower.
The Observer’s latest editorial on “biological sex” is less a defence of evidence-based policy than a reactionary lament for the loss of capitalist order disguised as administrative concern.
While Trump governs and the Democratic Party fragments, Sanders and AOC offer mass therapy disguised as mobilisation, nostalgia in place of a plan.
All UK families will be worse off by 2030, according to the latest data. Starmer’s Labour doesn’t plan to change that, only to manage the fallout.
As Starmer’s Labour government deepens public sector cuts, the silence from Reform UK is as revealing as the policy itself.
The Tory right, desperate to claw back support after their election defeat, are abandoning reality and embracing climate denial, setting the stage for a dangerous future where net zero commitments are scrapped to appease Reform UK supporters.
If Joe Biden was condemned as “Genocide Joe” for arming Israel during its war on Gaza, what do we call the man who not only restocked its weapons but signed off on the latest assault?
For years, we were told there was no money, no money for schools, no money for hospitals, no money for the poor, but as Europe rushes to rearm, the old fiscal rules have been quietly torn up.