Meghan Markle’s Vogue
- August 01, 2019
- by
- Matt
It’s safe to say that readers of the Infernal Machine probably don’t come here looking for coverage of the Royal Family or fashion. Despite my own well-deserved reputation for discreet sartorial elegance, I generally don’t read Vogue magazine unless I come across old copies at the dentists. It’s true that I was surprisingly engrossed by the documentary on Anna Wintour and the September issue that my daughter once dragged me off to, but that was the exception that justified the rule.
No doubt Miranda Priestley would berate me for my indifference to the subtle cultural...
Stand With the Squad
- July 17, 2019
- by
- Matt
Yesterday, in yet another of the dismal milestones that the Trump administration continues to carve into American political history, the US House of Representatives voted 240-187 to condemn the President of the United States for making racist statements. This unprecedented rebuke followed Trump’s Twitter attack on the four recently-elected Democrat Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria...
Who’s Afraid of George Soros?
- May 14, 2019
- by
- Matt
There was a time, many years ago, when I knew of George Soros as the billionaire who made a billion from speculating on the Pound during ‘Black Wednesday’ in 1992. Since then I’ve often came across his name as a philantrophist associated with various progressive liberal and pro-democratic causes, and I once applied for a...
The Caliphate According to Saint Matteo
- May 03, 2019
- by
- Matt
The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is a busy man. With less than a month until the European Elections, he has been touring the continent to shore up the troops for the new nationalist/populist bloc that he and his cohorts are seeking to establish in the European Parliament
The far-right has tried this before. In 2007...
In Praise of Political Correctness
- May 01, 2019
- by
- Matt
There was a time, in the Thatcher years, when the concept of ‘political correctness’ was used to de-legitimize the left and/or bring feminism and particularly antiracism into ridicule and disrepute.
Bliss was it to be alive in those days, when the British yellow press regaled the nation with mostly invented stories about what ‘loony left’ councils...
The Tony Blair Guide to Fighting Fascism
- April 22, 2019
- by
- Matt
There is no doubt that the resurgence of far-right populist politics across the world poses a direct threat to the rights and safety of migrants and minorities, to the future of democratic coexistence, and to the future of the nation-state as a multicultural and multiethnic space.
Now no less an intellectual authority than Tony Blair has...
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