This red cross appeared on a mini-roundabout near my home yesterday. It wasn’t the only such symbol to arrive. I noticed that other mini-roundabouts had
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Are the wealthy committing sociocide?
Sociocide and pleonexia are not just words. They describe what’s happening in plain sight: the destruction of society by those who refuse responsibility for the
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My question is, to where does this lead?
As the FT notes this morning: A UN-backed panel declared a famine in Gaza for the first time on Friday, in a damning assessment of
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How fascists use black-and-white thinking to win
Fascists and far-right politicians define an ‘other’ group in society and then blame them for all its problems. I explain why this tactic is so
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Neoliberalism is not a viable option
As is apparent from this blog, the issue of fascism has been much on my mind this week. Amongst the things that I’ve read has
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We will be better off without the Tories
This is a headline in the Financial Times this morning: The substance of the story does not matter in any large part. The fact is
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Where are the leaders? Putin, Ukraine, Trump, and the collapse of conviction
What happens when politics dies in August? A flight of leaders to Washington that achieved nothing. Trump was flattered. Zelensky was patronised. And the rest?
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How bad are things in Gaza?
This tweet is staggering: We are used to crises, conflicts, wars and their consequences. I wish that were not the case, but they have happened
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Half-baked Alaska
I put out a tweet last night suggesting that whatever might happen in the meeting between Putin and Trump, the outcome would be half-baked Alaska.
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