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Since its inception in 2018, Jeune Garde (Young Guard) has been France’s most prominent anti-fascist youth organisation. However, the group may not exist for much longer. In June 2025, the French government issued a decree dissolving the group and declaring it illegal. This decision, presented as a measure to protect public order, has ignited fierce […]

1. Were Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein friends?

A. I don’t know.

B. If by “friends” you mean that the two men partied together at Mar-a-Lago, that they hung out repeatedly, that Trump called Jeff a “fun” and “terrific guy” who liked women “on the younger side” and compared himself to Epstein, and that Epstein said he was Donald’s “closest friend”, who he sent bawdy letters to on his 50th birthday—then, sure, I guess you could say they were friends.

One of the world’s largest private security firms is poised to rake in millions from the Trump administration’s historic deportation spending blitz.

The Coalition’s shadow minister for home affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has told his missus to not wait up for him this weekend as he’s just heading out to a Coldplay concert. ”I’m a big Coldplay fan, I love all their stuff,... Read More ›

Israel’s bombing of Syria and US-backed reconstruction deals are being sold as humanitarian efforts. In reality, they are part of a calculated campaign to fracture Syria, fuel sectarianism, and preserve Western dominance in the region.

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This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous...

Although somewhat critical of its reductive elements, Foucault found certain attractive features in the ideal or programmatic form imagined by American neoliberalism, namely, that it envisages a kind of regulation outside sovereign, disciplinary, and biopolitical forms, that it regulates without the fabrication of subjectivities and in a manner that optimizes difference and tolerates minority groups […]

Whatever Norman Tebbit hoped to achieve by asking Asian immigrants which cricket team they would support to determine their 'Britishness' has failed spectacularly, argues Shamik Das

Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza joins MintCast host Mnar Adley to recount surviving Israel’s assault on Gaza, his rise to global prominence, and why documenting genocide is more urgent than ever.

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Josiah Mortimer investigates whether the Government's new reforms will stop the likes of billionaire X owner Elon Musk from funnelling millions of dollars into British politics

The same arguments for extending the vote to younger people, should apply to other groups that remain disenfranchised too, argues Adam Ramsay

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is spaced. A dash with no spaces on either side? That must be AI-generated writing. Case closed.”
— Joseph Mellors, Inside Higher Ed

I would like to address the recent slander circulating on social media, in editorial Slack channels, and in the margins of otherwise decent Substack newsletters. Specifically, the baseless, libelous accusation that my usage is a telltale sign of artificial intelligence.

Listen here, my good bitch.

Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit.