The disastrous end to this conflict shows that the west meddling in international affairs in such an aggressive manner is doomed to failure. Get the top minds in the American national security establishment together and I’ll show you a room of some of the most deluded zealots you’ll ever meet. Time and time again these people are paraded out as the pragmatic experts when it comes to foreign affairs and America’s role in…

After a brief spell where he returned to being the unquestioned leader of his party, there are once again murmurs around the Tory leader and his position. In the middle of the pandemic fiasco last year, when the government’s authority was totally shot and it’s polling was at its worst, there were pretty severe questions being asked behind closed doors within the Conservative party. Keir Starmer looked like a threat and the Tories began to murmur about…

Many Labour MPs wouldn’t know socialism if it slapped them in the face. It has once again over recent weeks become painstakingly obvious how overtly rightwing so many Labour MPs are. We all know that a substantial chunk of the parliamentary Labour Party were opposed to very mild pillars of social democracy as proposed by Jeremy Corbyn in his two manifestos, but it…

Progressives can’t rely on a mass collapse in the Blue Wall for their path to national power. Amongst an otherwise gloomy electoral picture for anti-Tory forces in England, there has been a focus on the one optimistic trend that right now seems to be going their way: the promise of taking the Tory “Blue Wall”. Like how Labour lost their post-industrial heartland seats to the Tories, the…

The same shortsighted blunders have been made, a rare opportunity squandered, and Democrats will pay the price. As January 20th rolled around, we had for the first time since 2009–11 a fully Democratic US government, both chambers of congress (albeit narrowly) controlled by Democrats, and the White House turning blue as well. This was the moment Democrats had been praying for, what they’d wanted more than anything…

The only way to tackle the climate crisis is large scale, collective action. Anything else is glorified gardening to make yourself feel better. We’ve had some choice comments from the government’s COP26 spokesperson, Allegra Stratton, that have pretty much eradicated any faith any of us could have misguidedly held that this government was even remotely serious when it came to doing anything to stop climate breakdown. As I saw someone say on Twitter…

Boris Johnson meeting with a top Tory election guru in Downing Street yesterday raises considerable questions. You may remember Lynton Crosby as the man behind David Cameron’s impossible majority in 2015, or you may remember him as the man behind Theresa May’s total flop in 2017. Either way, he’s someone who remains a big deal in Tory circles, and after a waning in respect for him…

Thatcher’s water privatisation scheme has been a 30 year racket, and the British public have had enough of it. In the wake of flooding in parts of London and now Scotland seeing roads submerging, we’ve had a rare policy commitment from Keir Starmer, this is from the Camden New Journal: ““Water should be run in the best interests of the environment and consumers — not shareholders,” a spokesperson for…

We’re seeing the third wave of cases, for one reason or another, begin to trail off; falling cases is obviously good news, and it’s an unprecedented development outside a lockdown. We’re very much in untreated territory for much of the world (including ourselves) right now. Because we have vaccinated so much of our population, and almost the entirety of the most vulnerable, we’re in a situation where we’ve seen cases rising at an alarming rate, but held our nerve and…