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Brexit Badly Weakened the UK and Now Donald Trump Is Taking Advantage
The President’s increasingly threatening behaviour has shown clearer than ever before why Britain needs to be back in the heart of the EU, argues Jonathan Lis
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Free Speech and the Opportunistic Deceit of the Right
Right-wing culture warriors on both sides of the Atlantic cannot cloak their authoritarianism in a strident belief in free speech – the hypocrisy is striking, writes Jonathan Lis
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‘It Is in Much of the Media’s Interest to Drive a Farage Victory’: How Asylum Became the Issue Obsessing Britain
When the press produces a daily stream of ‘invasion’ stories, or seizes on individual incidents involving asylum seekers as emblematic, it sells something people will always buy – fear and scapegoats, writes Jonathan Lis
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The New Left Party That Didn’t Need to Happen
The centralised and punishing approach of Labour under Keir Starmer risks his party losing voters at the next election to more progressive candidates who do not embrace the politics of Reform UK, writes Jonathan Lis
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‘The UK Government has taken its strongest action not against the Israeli Government, but against that Government’s opponents’
Two moments in recent weeks have crystallised a phenomenon so perverse in Britain’s political and media ecosystem it defies rational explanation.
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Political Culture – The Revealing Reappearance of the ‘Burqa Ban’
Pochin is the country’s newest MP, having won the May by-election in Runcorn and Helsby to become Reform’s fifth parliamentarian (sixth, after the suspended Rupert Lowe). This was her first question to the Prime Minister.
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‘Starmer Did Not Need to Manufacture Unpopularity For Its Own Sake – Now Farage Waits in the Wings’
Jonathan Lis’ PoliticalCulture ‘Starmer Did Not Need to Manufacture Unpopularity For Its Own Sake – Now Farage Waits in the Wings’ There have been opinion polls, anecdotal evidence, and Westminster chatter. Now, there is concrete evidence. Reform UK is the biggest political force in the country and poses a grave threat to the UK’s two…
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Political Economy – Trump’s Tariffs: The World’s ‘Liz Truss Moment’
Simon Nixon’s PoliticalEconomy Trump’s Tariffs: The World’s ‘Liz Truss Moment’ It is extraordinary to think that it is less than a decade since the UK chose to gamble its prosperity on the stability of the global rules-based trading system and America’s willingness to continue to underpin it. Ahead of the EU Referendum, the Leave campaign…
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Political Culture – Trump’s Tariffs: Starmer’s Moment of Danger and Opportunity
For one week after Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ on 2 April – when he introduced tariffs on worldwide imports ranging from 10% to 50% – the alarms flashed red on the US economy.
