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Donald J Trump

From Fordism to Fascist Nostalgia

There was a time when the production line ordered more than goods, it ordered life. Work meant wages, wages meant stability, and stability gave the illusion of progress. That was Fordism. What remains now is the shell of that promise, retrofitted as nationalist fantasy. The factory is gone, but its myth has been repurposed. Not to build, but to blame.
Chris Phelp

The Politics of Fear in Opposition

Philp’s not doing politics, he is doing panic. Jenrick’s dragging the whole Tory lot further right, and this is what’s left: no ideas, no plan, just enemies. Same fear, different headline.

A grainy, black-and-white brick wall with a faded Pride flag poster pasted in the centre. Spray-painted across the flag in bold red letters are the words “NEUTRALITY = COMPLICITY”. Below, in black stencilled text, it reads “TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS”.
Culture War

Against the Ruling: Pride, Policing, and the Politics of Supposed Impartiality

Neutrality in the face of injustice is not impartiality. This is complicity. The court’s ruling isn’t about keeping police out of politics; it’s about appeasing a reactionary movement that wants trans people pushed from public life. Today it’s Pride. Tomorrow it’s the right to celebrate Eid, to march for Black lives, to speak up for Palestine. The message is clear: visibility is permitted only for the unthreatening.

At the top, a stylised Doomsday Clock shows the time at 89 seconds to midnight, its right edge crumbling into scattered debris. Below, a tattered folder labelled “EPSTEIN FILES” lies tilted on the ground, next to a worn red MAGA hat. The entire composition is in grainy sepia tones with strong black and red accents, evoking urgency and political decay.
Alexander Dugin

Dugin Watch: Delay Is Not Peace, Dugin’s Fifty-Day Fever Dream

Dugin doesn’t need Trump to lead anymore. He just needs him to stall. The real project now is building a soft-theocratic death cult that prays for collapse but never acts. Spectators waiting for revelation, not revolution. Fifty days to Armageddon. Maybe. Maybe not. That’s the point.

The title at the top reads “PUNISHED MORE, PAID LESS”. Below it is a bar chart showing sanction rates by ethnicity: White (3%), Asian (4.4%), Black (6.4%), Mixed (5.3%), Other (3.1%). The caption at the bottom says: “ETHNIC MINORITY CLAIMANTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE SANCTIONED. SO MUCH FOR ‘SPECIAL TREATMENT’.”
Immigration

The £12 Billion Lie

Farage says migrants are draining £12bn in benefits. The government’s own data says the real figure is closer to £3bn, and those he targets are more likely to be sanctioned and underpaid. This isn’t savings. It’s scapegoating.

A stylised diptych poster On the left, a utopian scene of post-war British council housing: clean, mid-century low-rise flats with open communal space where children play and neighbours chat in a sunlit courtyard. On the right, a stark contrast—dilapidated, privately rented housing with cracked walls, broken windows, a decaying swing, and a large “FOR RENT” sign, evoking neglect, scarcity, and social decline. Both panels are rendered in red and beige tones, underscoring the ideological shift from collective provision to market-driven decay.

A Nation That Rents, and Rots

The British housing crisis is not a matter of scarcity but of structure—a system that treats homes as investment vehicles, tenants as revenue streams, and housing itself as a battlefield between capital and collective life.