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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.

Working Class and Ruling Class

Lee Anderson’s Questionable Politics: From Labour to the Tories, and Now GB News

From Labour to the Tories and now GB News, Lee Anderson’s questionable politics have caused controversy and criticism. As a newly-promoted figure in the Conservative Party and set to join the likes of Rees-Mogg on GB News, Anderson’s remarks on poverty and working class representation have left many wondering whether he truly understands the realities faced by those he claims to speak for.