The Wars of Ralph Peters
- September 06, 2017
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- Matt
Slowly, but inexorably, the world is drifting towards the prospect of an all-out war between the United States and North Korea. At the very least such a conflict is likely to result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, most of them Koreans. It also raises the very real possibility of...
One Day Without Us 2018
- September 04, 2017
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- Matt
It’s just under a year since I was part of a Facebook discussion about the alarmingly xenophobic drift of post-referendum UK society. We were people from many different nationalities, backgrounds and political persuasions. Some of us were migrants, others the descendants of migrants or British nationals who know migrants as our friends,...
Peter Kosminsky’s Islamic State
- August 22, 2017
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- Matt
The violence that we call terrorism has always been surrounded by a curious paradox. On the one hand virtually every terrorist emergency in history has declared terrorism to be a unique threat to society, yet the societies under threat are generally not encouraged and are even actively discouraged from thinking about what terrorism is,...
Solidarity With Gina Miller
- August 10, 2017
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- Matt
There was a time, not that long ago in fact, when ‘liberals’ and ‘leftists’ were blamed for the rise of Brexit and Donald Trump. We – the ‘latte-drinking metropolitan elite’ had been too arrogant, the argument ran. We hadn’t listened to ‘ordinary people’. We’d become complacent and detached from...
The Madness of King Donald
- July 31, 2017
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- Matt
Even by the wild standards of what may well be the most deranged individual ever to inhabit the White House, the man who calls himself Donald Trump has had a prolific and remarkable week. Just to recapitulate. In the space of five working days Trump has:
a) publicly humiliated the admittedly creepy attorney general...
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