Over the last three decades, the United States of America has increasingly resorted to economic sanctions in its foreign policy. Relying on the financial hegemony…
Over the last three decades, the United States of America has increasingly resorted to economic sanctions in its foreign policy. Relying on the financial hegemony…
The great sage of the US House of Representatives, Tip O’Neill, gave us the admonition that ‘All politics is local.’. Recent by-election wins by the…
The biggest criticism of Keir Starmer over the last eighteen months had been a lack of clarity over what he stands for. What does he…
There is a myth that had grown around mass suicides. We use the phrase ‘drinking the kool-aid’ as a shorthand for a group of people…
Warring Fictions: Left Populism and it’s defining myths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) Colin Talbot talks to Chris Clarke, one of the latest writers to try…
So the Corbynista-Momentum fantasy politics show is over. The British people heard what Corbyn and his fellow travellers were selling – and they weren’t buying….
And so we have the denouement of the “blocked parliament” and the Brexit debate. It doesn’t take a great strategist or futurist to know what…
Expect the unexpected in this most unpredictable of elections. And yet some things are predictable. The Conservative election strategy has been clear for some time:…
Not everything is black and white. That must be the Conservative leadership’s hope having lost in the Supreme Court and the Labour leadership’s hope now…
As I watch the woeful spectacle of the appointment of the UK’s next prime minister by an un-representative electoral college that is at the top…
The political world has changed and it is hard – not just practically, but emotionally – to keep up. Last week, I pulled off my…