
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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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.
More than 200,000 young men aren’t “signed off for life”—they are the reserve army of labour, conscripted into the Telegraph’s morality tale to prepare the ground for austerity.
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.
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.
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.
The events of Saturday (13/09) prove that Britain can go fascist. Musk calls for violence, the Telegraph and Times launder his words, and Starmer clings to the flag. We must name the danger or watch it grow.
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.
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.
Trump’s April 23rd Executive Order abolishes disparate-impact liability under the guise of restoring “meritocracy,” turning civil rights law into a tool for erasing systemic discrimination rather than remedying it. It is a cornerstone of Project 2025’s authoritarian blueprint: neutral on its face, revanchist in effect.
Trump’s return to power exposes the just world theory for what it is: a comforting liberal illusion that crumbles under the weight of class reality and fascist spectacle
On Faiz Siddiqui’s Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
This is how Putin wages war: deliberate strikes on civilian centres, on housing, schools, power stations, hospitals.
On Trump’s tariffs and the fantasy of economic control
Trump’s new tariffs aren’t a return to protectionism so much as a sign that capital, cornered and decadent, is turning inward, more coercive, more nationalist, and more dangerous.
From Le Pen to Netanyahu, today’s political class treats the law not as a constraint but as a tool of power, discarded the moment it threatens their impunity.
The Trump administration’s latest tariff proposal assumes that other countries will quietly absorb the cost of import duties. But tariffs don’t work like that. They never have.
On Tariffs, Crypto, and the Class Logic of Trump’s Economic Nationalism
Trump’s second coming is less a rupture than the routinisation of political collapse. A Brumaire not of empire, but of entropy.