How Donald Trump won the support of working class Americans, while selling out their interests to global plutocrats like Elon Musk
US Politics
Those of us who live in Europe have reason to be very pessimistic about the next four years. The state that Europeans have relied upon as their security guarantee is now in the hands of the nationalist extreme right and the information space is saturated by the output of tech oligarchs such as Elon Musk […]
A sinister far-right oligarch seeking to overthrow western governments from his seat in the White House is a story too strange for fiction
Here’s a virtual toast to your flourishing in 2025. But more so than any other year, our wishes should not just be from person to person, but rather wishes for societies – and the society of societies, global humanity. I haven’t felt so gloomy about politics, broadly defined, in a very long time. A genocide […]
Obeying in advance by US and British media means they cannot combat the march of the hard right Broligarchs
Now that the U.S. faces the return of a fascist President to power, we must consider the connections among plutocracy, misogyny, and fascism. In 2016, many pundits attributed Trump’s election to the rightward shift of white working-class voters in response to economic anxieties inflicted by neoliberal globalization. Political scientists quickly refuted this theory, pointing to […]
Europe and the US must wake up to the threat posed by Georgia's repressive Russian-aligned regime, writes the UK's former ambassador to the country
“We don’t feel safe here. It’s not just Trump, it’s the fact half our country voted for him"
The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government
Not taking seriously political figures we find undesirable will not change their potential impact or ambitions – Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and Nigel Farage only benefit from being underestimated, writes Hardeep Matharu