Burn Baby Burn
- July 28, 2019
- by
- Matt
There are many reasons to despise and resist the rightwing ‘populist’ politics that are poisoning democracies across the world in the second decade of the 21st century. The racism and white supremacism that so often underpins these movements; the dehumanisation of immigrants; the authoritarianism; the deep seam of dishonesty if not outright corruption that so...
Rightwing Populism: Your Climate Change Non-Solutions
- April 05, 2019
- by
- Matt
There are many urgent reasons to oppose the rightwing populist movements that are gaining ground across Europe and beyond: their racism and hostility to minorities, their anti-Muslim bigotry, their authoritarianism, their incipient fascism, their hostility to democracy, the antisemitism that so often seeps through their opposition to ‘globalism’.
But there is another reason that tends to...
Down from the Mountains
- August 25, 2015
- by
- Matt
I’ve just returned from a working holiday in the Pyrenees. During that time I haven’t done any blogging, partly because good and sustained Internet connections weren’t always available, and also because I was doing too many things to be able to sit down and write for long periods. I went to the...
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