It was clear from the start. Theresa May was not qualified to be prime minister in the best of times and was deeply unsuitable when imagination and public appeal are essential – leaving aside implementing a strategy in the country’s interest. I showed why this was so at the time. But her failure is not […]

Click:Glass bottles With typical hyperbole and disregard for accuracy, the Daily Mail published a headline earlier this month claiming that MPs had ‘caved in’ to ‘left-wing doctors and scrap[ped] plans to stop ‘health tourists’ coming to Britain for treatment they're not entitled to’. Making no reference to the well documented harm caused by the policy, […]

“We must open our eyes and act before we find ourselves living in a fascist Europe”, the Croatian feminist activist Marinella Matejčić told me. We met in late March in front of an old, local church in Verona, Italy – the day after Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right Lega party, spoke at a […]

An Armenian oligarch who US diplomats once compared to Donald Trump has spent tens of thousands courting UK Eurosceptic politicians over the past two years. Gagik Tsarukyan MP is one of Armenia’s richest men, and his political party occupies the second largest number of seats in parliament. He has no known assets or interests in […]

The science fiction and fantasy genre, which concerns itself so frequently with distant stars and imaginary lands, has become a space in which the prominence of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people most closely mirrors real-world America. That might surprise those who recently saw the field rocked by a right-wing movement that rebelled against […]

In the lead-up to this week’s EU elections apocalyptic predictions of a right-populist ‘sweep’ have abounded in both the European and international press. The concerns are, to a degree, justified – right and farther-right parties will probably gain an important number of seats in this electoral contest across a number of EU states. What is […]

Click:微信号检测 If you follow the news, you must have seen her face. Awkwardly serious and surprisingly mature in speech, 16 year old Greta Thunberg from Sweden is currently one of the hottest names in global politics. Thunberg has been making headlines since 2018 when she first ditched school in order to protest against climate change. […]

On the surface, the announcement that Facebook plans to launch a new ‘GlobalCoin’ currency in 2020 is just another milestone in the ongoing expansion of the social media behemoth. But beyond the obvious opportunities that it may offer, the announcement reveals something else about where these platforms are heading. The aim of the new currency […]

If Russian democracy ends where Ukraine begins, as a popular saying goes, then Ukrainian democracy ends when the conversation about language begins. The “language issue” can make anyone hate each other and lead to additional friction in society. Ukraine’s new “Law on Guaranteeing the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language” emerged out […]

The main institution which drove Britain out of the EU was the right-wing press. For decades, papers owned by oligarchs like Rupert Murdoch, Richard Desmond, and the Barclay brothers protected politicians that their journalists ought to have been holding to account, shifting the blame for their failures onto a convenient, fictionalised version of the European […]