The rise and rise of the German Greens
Slowly and quietly, the German Greens are filling the void once occupied on the centre-left by the collapsing social democrats. German politics may never be the same again.
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Category: Politics
Fragmentation, not the far-right, is the story of Sweden’s election
Another European election, another round of bad takes about the far-right from the British media. Sweden’s election saw the rise of the Sweden Democrats, but that’s far from the whole story.
Little Letterhole: Remembering the Prague Spring
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
To beat pollution, get the cars out of London
London is hideously polluted. To end this growing crisis, and improve the city’s quality of life, we need to get the cars out, and the cyclists and pedestrians in.
The legitimisation of Tommy Robinson
Tommy Robinson is an unremarkable racist, a bloke-in-the-pub with an outsized platform – we can blame the BBC for mythologising him into a working-class hero.
Little Letterhole: We’ll miss the United States when it’s gone
DONALD Trump was full of praise for his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö this week. ‘I enjoyed being with you aContinue Reading
Little Letterhole: Footballers can’t use ignorance as an excuse
MESUT Özil doesn’t talk about politics, at least according to an interview he gave with the Süddeutsche Zeitung last year.Continue Reading
In the wake of Toronto, what should we do about young men?
Most terrorist attacks are committed by young men. The recent van attack in Toronto highlights a particular strand of toxic masculinity that penetrates our whole society.
Viktor Orbán’s illiberal democracy is a warning to Europe
Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party has received another four years to create his ‘illiberal democracy’. Is this an omen of things to come in Western Europe?
Jeremy Corbyn must never become prime minister
Though far from the Marxist bogeyman he is so often portrayed as, Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the Russia crisis highlights why he must never become prime minister.
