…and we’re back. We know you missed this, even if you hated the memes before, you felt the lack. To quote the prophet Mitchell, you don’t know what you’ve...

January is almost over, and we’re only just dropping the first memes of 2023? We can only apologise. But don’t worry, because today we’re here to post memes and...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Matthew Ehret Audio Version New Feature! A vast sweeping change towards a “green economy” is now being pushed by forces that may make an educated citizen rather uncomfortable. Of...

John Griffin If you ever thought of becoming a philosopher, now’s the time. In fact, now is the only and last chance you have. The philosophical adventure – many...

Kevin Smith There have been a wide selection of articles published here over the last year on Covid-19 and lockdowns. Since March, the thinking of many of us has...

Vladimir Golstein In the tradition of the Oxford English Dictionary, I recommend the following terms and their definitions to be included in a 2020 version of the same. DNC...

John Steppling “Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.” Lenin – Letters from Afar Many on...

John Steppling I also write from time to time, and if any sweet breath fills my soul, it’s the light of memory … Oh the memory in prison! How...

John Steppling In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.”...

CJ Hopkins So here we go. Like a 1960s straight-to-drive-in Hammer Film Production, the 2020 campaign season has begun. Dig into your bucket of popcorn, pop the flap on...

Whatever one may believe about the dangers of CO2 and risks of global warming creating a global catastrophe in the next roughly 12 years, it is worth noting who...

John Steppling Not only are we not going to have wars between major powers in this era of fascist upsurge (of course, as will be discussed, we shall have...

Hiroyuki Hamada Good investigative journalism doesn’t only reveal hidden mechanisms of our time;  it also exposes those who refuse to confront the mechanisms. Remember when the late Bruce Dixon...

Colin Todhunter There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. This accelerated when the USSR ended and...