Viktor Orbán has been defeated in Hungary. After sixteen years in power, during which authoritarian rule, rampant corruption, the systematic dismantling of Hungary’s free press
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Orbán’s fall offers hope
Viktor Orbán’s time as Prime Minister of Hungary has come to an end. As the Guardian have reported: With 98.74% of the vote counted, Magyar’s
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Peace in our time? Why the Middle East deal is already doomed
Markets are celebrating a Middle East peace deal. They shouldn’t be. This is not peace; it is a US strategic retreat, repackaged as diplomacy. And
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Europe needs to wake up and be woke
Heath Cox Richardson’s ‘Letter from an American’ is worth reading this morning, as it invariably is. As she noted: The Trump administration’s white nationalist project
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Is defence about more than weaponry?
This week, the world exploded, but what really shocked me wasn’t Trump. Trump was predictable. The chaos was published in advance. Project 2025 made the
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Do we need a European Federation?
A commentator on this blog noted yesterday that: “I’ve always thought a federated Europe is inevitable and (in my mind) desirable… the alternative is that
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Why Europe must act now: the post-NATO world has begun
We are living through fascism. That is the first message of this video. We are therefore living through unprecedented chaos. That is the second message.
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Does MMT apply to the Euro?
I was asked this question yesterday: One point that I find difficult, is how does MMT apply to the Euro? If the Euro is produced
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You should never accommodate fascists
If you are 67, as I am, you grew up in the shadow of World War II, even though, of course, it was well and
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