In the context of this morning’s video and a post yesterday, this jumped out at me from an overnight newsletter from the New York Times:
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The US is now a fascist state
Chris Hedges has warned us: ‘fascists mean what they say’. Donald Trump has now issued NSPM-7, a presidential order that redefines dissent as terrorism and
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Let’s be clear: Starmer is a racist too
Starmer tried to look tough by calling Reform’s policies racist this week. I have already noted their backlash this morning. But let’s also be clear,
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Will it be women who fight tyranny?
I did an interview with New York–based finance podcast host Jack Farley yesterday. He had done his research, and the discussion was good. I will
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Fascism, Trump, Reform, and the silencing of dissent
Chris Hedges, the noted anti-fascist campaigner in the USA, has recently pointed out that fascists are unusually candid. They tell you what they are going
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Farage vs Workers
Nigel Farage says cutting “red tape” boosts growth. Let’s be honest about what that means: weaker paid leave, weaker sick and maternity pay, weaker anti-discrimination
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Farage vs Democracy
Nigel Farage sells Reform as a people’s movement—but scratch the surface and you find a one-man company with no real internal democracy. In this video,
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Has the coup already happened?
The New York Times began an email I received overnight by saying: Today, I’m talking to my colleague Damien Cave, who wrote a great piece
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Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest
At the Labour Party conference this morning, Rachel Reeves said: “There is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using one in every £10 of public
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