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‘George Floyd Murder Gave Us Hope Things Would Change – But They’ve Changed for the Worse’
Five years on from the death that shocked the world, Shabna Begum explains how political denial and repressive legislation has made things worse for people of colour in the UK
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‘UK Energy Is on Trial – But You Probably Didn’t Even Know’
Brits urged to listen to the plight of indigenous people, whose environments have been destroyed by fossil fuel companies, as ‘one day it will be you’
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‘The Case for Climate Popularism in the Green Party’
The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
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After Nearly 600 Days the End of the Israel-Gaza War Looks as Far off as Ever
As the world continues to wring its hands, the suffering of the people at the heart of this conflict only continues to grow, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Google’s Illegal Monopoly and How US Court Decision Comes at a Critical Time for UK and EU Policymakers’
A landmark antitrust decision against Google in the US will have profound iImplications for the digital economy in the UK and beyond, writes Stephen Kinsella and Tim Cowen
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class
‘The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class, who foolishly no longer see historical context as instructive’
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‘Keir Starmer’s EU Deal Is Far Better Than the Media Is Telling You’
Much more needs to be done to repair the damage of Brexit, but this is a welcome step in the right direction, argues the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations
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‘The Problem With Misinformation Is the Problem With Information’
The Trump administration has officially terminated all funding for research aimed at combatting online misinformation, which is distorting public opinion on life-threatening issues such as measles, war, and climate change.
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Don’t Mention Trump
Republicans are opting to protect their own personal status by staying quiet on the President, and Democrats still have nothing to say to independent voters. Alexandra Hall Hall reports
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‘Real Democracy Can Counter Division and Hate’
Co-initiator of the 2021 Global Citizens’ Assembly Jamie Kelsey shares his insights on how giving people genuine political agency is the answer to those tempted by more extreme ideas
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‘We Need Psychological Herd Immunity to Create a Resilient Social Media Society’
Social psychologist Dr Melisa Basol explains how her work at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab focuses on creating resistance against misinformation through inoculation theory
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The Bitter After-Taste of the Candy Man’s Conspiracy
Long before Donald Trump’s ‘MAGA’, a society railing against the New World Order recruited thousands of acolytes across the United States. All it had to do was bide its time, writes Otto English
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Political Economy – ‘UK’s Trade Deals Show How the World is Evolving in Response to the Trump Shock’
It has been amusing to watch the Conservatives and their media cheerleaders tie themselves up in knots over how to respond to Labour’s success in concluding two trade deals with America and India in the space of a week.
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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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Myth of the Month – Tall Tales
The Empire State Building first opened its doors to the public on 1 May 1931. Rising to a height of 385m, it was then the tallest building in the world and would retain that accolade until it was surpassed by the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers in 1972.
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Keir Starmer’s EU Reset Deal Is the First Crack in the Brexit Wall Holding Britain Back
This agreement marks the beginning of the end of the suffocating Brexit consensus that has gripped British politics for a decade, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Why the Critics of University Expansion May Have Had a Point’
Opening up higher education to half the country hasn’t been quite the progressive boon we were promised, argues Neal Lawson
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Mandrake – Sunshine State Benefits
When the Daily Mail claimed that millionaires were fleeing London as a result of the Starmer Government’s tax increases – including the abolition of the non-dom status that exempted non-UK income from being taxed – no mention was made of the whereabouts of the newspaper’s proprietor, Lord Rothermere.
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‘In These TikTok Times, Nigel Farage Knows Personality Trumps Trust’
With cynicism towards traditional institutions at an all-time high, the new digital landscape in which politicians operate favours the likes of the Reform UK Leader. James Bloodworth reports
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Return of the Oligarchs
Twenty years ago, the political philosopher David Marquand wrote his far-sighted tract Decline of the Public. Reading it today is uncanny because it predicted with such clarity and understated intellectual power the course of British politics over the last two decades.
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‘Keir Starmer’s Painful Immigration Speech Is a Direct Affront to the Diagnosis He Was Voted in On’
The PM’s white paper was not the ‘evidence-led’ policymaking he promised, rather it was ‘cheap, short-termist, headline politics’, writes Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Is Now Even More Anti-Migrant Than Its Conservative Predecessors’
Hopes that Labour would abandon the Conservative trend of treating incomers as disposable and lesser beings have been dashed, argues Daniel Sohege
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Keir Starmer’s Reform-Lite Strategy Has Left Him Marooned on an Island of Strangers
New polling finds a collapse in support for the Prime Minister among Labour voters, as he pursues a strategy that is also failing to win over supporters of Reform, reports Adam Bienkov
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Murder in Uniform: Britain’s Special Forces and Their Killings in Afghanistan
A groundbreaking new investigation has unveiled the horrifying scale of unlawful killing done in our name, reports Iain Overton
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‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Why We Must Call the National-Populist Far Right by Its Name’
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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‘As Trump Wrecks the Global Order, Big Business Must Decide Which Side It’s On’
Where are the voices defending the huge benefits that globalisation has brought to the world, asks Matthew Gwyther
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‘The Cold Electoral Cynicism Behind Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy’
The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Why Tony Blair’s Intervention on Net Zero Is the Most Irrational Contribution to Climate Discourse in Some Time’
There can be no “third way” to tackling the existential threat of man made climate change, argues Russell Warfield
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Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
Labour’s embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer’s former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Nigel Farage Is Killing the Conservative Party and Starmer Must Change Course to Avoid the Same Fate
Telling voters that the Reform leader is right, but they shouldn’t vote for him anyway, is no more likely to work for Labour than it has for the Conservatives, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘There May Not Be Any Institutions Left to Rebuild – the Democrats Need to Project Confidence and Keep Fighting’
Alexandra Hall Hall speaks to former Obama and Clinton staffer Tom Malinowski about why the Democrats and those outside of Washington are reluctant to push back against the Trump administration
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Sycophants
You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to know that the Trump presidency would lead to calamity. All you needed to do was read his speeches and study his record. It was all there – including the catastrophic tariffs. Yet, Britain’s most famous newspapers, along with two former prime ministers, hailed him as world saviour.
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Mandrake – Hacking Away
The Telegraph looks like an unsellable property in an estate agents’ window – Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly is the latest to be shown round.
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Myth of the Month – Mr. Pink
Otto English Myth of the Month Mr Pink Though it sat on the edge of an ever-expanding new town, the Essex village where I grew up in the 1970s still had tangible traces of the county’s rural past. The high street, with its four pubs, post office, and butcher, looked like it had sprung fresh…