Rosemary Frei As if it was planned in advance, billions of people around the globe are being forced step by rapid step into a radically different way of life,...

Martin Cohen “The end of everything we call life is at hand and cannot be evaded” H. G. Wells (1946) The coronavirus doesn’t just make individual people ill –...

CJ Hopkins OK, I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. The good news is mainly for authoritarians who missed all the fun during the War...

Martial Law in Lombardy, all of France under house arrest & UK passes sweeping "Coronavirus Bill"...our world is being reshaped. But only if we let it.

Binoy Kampmark A note of fraternal tension has been registered between the United Kingdom and Australia. It began with Britain’s decision to permit China’s technology giant Huawei a role...

On Wednesday, it was reported that Boris Johnson’s government is considering scrapping the licence fee. [For non-UK readers, the licence fee is a mandated payment all citizens are required...

This is just an open thread to focus discussion on the breaking news of the day. The last day of the first month of 2020 is shaping up to...

Earlier today, President Rouhanie of Iran formally admitted that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps had shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet leaving Tehran a few days ago. Speculation has...

Catte Black It’s increasingly clear that – short of QAnon’s wild idea that it’s all about engineering total US withdrawal from the Middle East – no coherent plan was...

Andre Vltchek For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, “hold office”; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the...

Catte Black There’s an orgy of election post mortem going on at the moment. A lot of people in the mainstream and the alternative media are bringing their own...

  The polls are closed, and the exit polls are in, and apparently Labour has had a terrible day. The story taking shape is that Brexit, over everything else,...

W Stephen Gilbert In what they keep calling “the most unpredictable election of recent times”, the pundits report a continuing Tory lead in the opinion polls, indicating that Boris...

Binoy Kampmark Summit anniversaries are not usually this abysmally interesting.  While those paying visits to Watford, England on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty...

Consider this a catch-all discussion thread on the UK General Election 2019. A few readers have been asking in email and in the comments why we aren’t running daily...

Philip Roddis Today BBC World at One featured responses to the Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary attack. Zero evidence offered. Silence on the relative extent of antisemitic views within the two...

W Stephen Gilbert People generally vote out of self-interest. Of course they do. The snag is that relatively few have any sense of where their self-interest lies. Throughout the...

Frank Lee Such was the response to any of those who questioned what was happening to the animal revolution which had expropriated the farmer (Jones) and set up the...

A rapid volte-face from the Labour Party means the UK may be headed for a Christmas time General Election. For those of you following, this is the second proposed...

Brexit isn't going to happen. Left or Right - Lexit or Rexit - it's over. It's time to make peace with that idea. This on-going, slow-burn sabotage is hard...