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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.

Front cover of The Times newspaper 27th December 2023

Ending the Privileged Pursuit

The chaos of the “traditional” Boxing Day hunts has ended, with the saboteurs doing all they could to disrupt the hunts; yet we still saw a fox ripped apart by an out-of-control packs of hounds. It’s now time for the Labour Party to commit to ending the blood sport of the ruling class once and for all.