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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.

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.

Managed Decline

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.

Managed Decline

Labour promises growth, but all it really offers is cuts, because in the end, that is the only thing it knows how to do.

David Lammy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Quiet Cruelties

Keir Starmer’s Labour seems intent on quietly abandoning principle, both at home and abroad, for short-sighted political expediency.

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Labour’s War on the Poor

Labour’s plan to cut £5 billion from disability benefits isn’t just a betrayal of its supposed principles, it’s a grim rerun of austerity, dressed up in the language of tough but fair reform.

The Efficiency Trap

Governments like to frame their cruellest policies as pragmatic necessities, but what they call ‘efficiency’ is always someone else’s suffering.