Vladimir Lenin’s astute observation of the fact that there are decades where nothing happens; and weeks in which decades happen, has been fully and finally vindicated by the events of summer 2020. A global pandemic, the state enforced lockdown that accompanied it and the international political unrest that emerged as…

Over a month has passed since the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin; an on-duty member of the Minneapolis Police Department, and the fallout of the incident continues to play out in the form of civil unrest and a cultural realignment that promises to rumble on indefinitely. On the…

‘If everybody listened to me, this world would be a perfect world’. This is a quote taken from the old Snoopy cartoons, yet it seems to be the order of day. In the United States, the riots that emerged as a reaction to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis…

The reckless murder of yet another unarmed black American at the hand of the police has sparked days of furious protest, as the citizens of Minneapolis demonstrate their refusal to allow the life and memory of George Floyd to be discarded in the name of the perpetuation of an oppressive…

If Britain was not, as Napoleon put it, ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, future generations would look back on the events of 2019 in the same way we today look at those of 1789. In that year, faced with a corrupt, ossified institution that ubiquitously loomed over the public lives of…

Sir David Attenborough is supposed to be a British national treasure, but his particular brand of environmentalism is toxic and elitist. There can be no question to the fact that tackling man-made climate change and pollution is one of the most significant struggles we face as a species. However, we…

The European Union has seen better days. In the early-2000’s, the EU seemed destined to become a truly global force, capable of filling the void left behind by the Soviet Union, without the brutal string of concentration camps, permanent economic turmoil, perpetual threat of thermonuclear annihilation, and chronic shortages of…