Talk Thread: Election Day in the UK
The original title of the post was simply “Election Day 2024”, but of course this is the “greatest election year in human history”, so that didn’t narrow it down...
MSM Signaling a change in the Russia-Ukraine Narrative?
Kit Knightly
Two major incidents in the last week suggest we might be about to see a change in the narrative surrounding the Russian war in Ukraine. First we saw Piers...
This Week in the New Normal #92
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...
Quick Take: Why do they want a “race war” on Armistice Day?
Tomorrow is Armistice Day in the UK. It’s also the scheduled time of a “million man march” in support of Palestine. There was a time, just a few short...
This Week in the New Normal #70
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...
White Privilege and the Racism Debate: A British East European point of view
In this country I am regarded as White and therefore, privileged – it seems. People in the streets and on television say that Whites should kneel and apologise. Really?...
Flat or Sparkling Campaign?
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...
Discuss: European Elections
The European elections are here, and Theresa May’s political future hangs in the balance. As it seems to have done for years. Her party, fresh off being wiped out...
Send Labour A Message: Vote Brexit, Vote Galloway
David Lindsay At the forthcoming European Elections, every Labour candidate favours a second referendum and would vote Remain. Add in the sentence handed down to Julian Assange, and...
Nick Cohen: "Brexiteers are fascists, liars and charlatans whose only recourse is name-calling,"
Mere days after the Guardian published no less than four different editorials criticising the tone of the debate, the poisoning of the atmosphere, and the contempt we have for...
Guardian wastes no time in turning tragedy into politcal capital
Less than 24 hours after the violent death of the Labour MP Jo Cox, the Guardian has unleashed two editorials that seek to pin the blame, not on the...
