We Took Back Control? Starmer’s EU Deal and the Managed Restoration
You don’t take a country back by restoring student exchanges or standardising exports. You take it back by asking who it belongs to—and who it never did.
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You don’t take a country back by restoring student exchanges or standardising exports. You take it back by asking who it belongs to—and who it never did.
On Laura Bates’s The New Age of Sexism.
Britain doesn’t need a labour shortage to punish the poor.
Malcolm X was not just a man but an ongoing process. A revolutionary for us all—even children—his journey from rage to clarity shows how radical truth is learned, lived, and handed down.
A functioning health system is not one where executives earn bonuses while patients die in corridors.
On Andor, Class Struggle, and Watching Rebellion Under Trumpism
You don’t take a country back by restoring student exchanges or standardising exports. You take it back by asking who it belongs to—and who it never did.
Britain doesn’t need a labour shortage to punish the poor.
Marine Le Pen is out of the race, but her party is preparing for power.
JD Vance isn’t offering Europe advice, he’s issuing terms from the heart of a revanchist empire, dressed up in the language of realism and loyalty.
Another boat sinks, more bodies wash up, and Europe’s leaders repeat the same empty promises, yet the boats keep coming, because they must.
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.
J.D. Vance isn’t merely Trump’s Vice President, he’s the intellectual architect of a disciplined, reactionary project intent on dismantling democracy at home and abroad.
The Trump administration’s second term is proving to be not a resurgence of American power, but a chaotic acceleration of its decline, marked by incoherence, reactionary bluster, and an open invitation for geopolitical adversaries to fill the void left by its retreat.
Marine Le Pen’s rise in French politics, often attributed to immigration and crime, is more accurately understood as a reaction to the economic exploitation and inequality perpetuated by the capitalist system.
Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, delivered a powerful speech expressing solidarity with Palestinian rights advocates in Germany, despite facing a ban on participating in political events in the country due to his outspoken criticism of efforts to silence those who speak out against injustices faced by Palestinians.