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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.
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
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.
Welcome to the July edition of a series of monthly ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
DONALD Trump was full of praise for his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö this week. ‘I enjoyed being with you aContinue Reading
Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
MESUT Özil doesn’t talk about politics, at least according to an interview he gave with the Süddeutsche Zeitung last year.Continue Reading
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 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?
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.
