Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain paper on mass deportations is not just about migration, although that is its toxic superficial focus. It is also about power,
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Rupert Lowe’s challenge is real: Do we want a politics of care, or of hate?
A commentator here drew my attention last night to a new policy paper from the Restore Britain group that has been launched by former Reform
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Why do politicians really attack “woke” ideas?
“Woke” once meant awareness of injustice. Now it is used to mock compassion. This video explains how culture-war language protects wealth and power, and why
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New glossary entry: Woke
“Woke” originally meant being alert to injustice, whether it be racism, inequality, exploitation, or the ways power harms those with the least protection. It has
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Economic questions: the John Ruskin question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Neoliberalism is the politics of destruction
In this video, I explain why neoliberalism is not a mistake but a system built to shift power from people to corporations. This politics of
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Starmer: the real extremist
This was posted on X by Steven Swinford of The Times on Friday night: The comment noted, and the proposed speech by Keir Starmer, are
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Racism is not enough for Reform. They do misogny too.
As The Guardian noted last night: Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection has been accused of wanting a “Handmaid’s Tale future” after
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Don’t be disabled in the UK
This is from the Office for Budget Responsibility, in 2023: The message is, don’t be disabled in the UK: we really do not support those
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