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Category Archives: Democracy on Trial.

Maybe Ukraine Should Surrender.

March 1, 2022

I would like to think deeply and write well about Ukraine. Alas, I have only the time at the moment …

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Should Ukraine Surrender?

February 27, 2022

To ask whether or not Ukraine should surrender to invading Russian troops will cause an obvious and indeed vicious discomfort. …

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Democracy Manager Job Application.

September 29, 2021

I am sad to report that I have little by way of new writing on the go at the moment. …

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Two Stars, Gone From The Sky.

July 30, 2021

I’ll close today with an oft-told story from the earliest days of my nation. It’s said that as Benjamin Franklin …

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A Marxist Reading of the Lockdown.

July 13, 2021

In the UK, there cannot be many people left now who in their heart of hearts think that the lockdown …

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Bombing Brexit Back to the Stone Age.

December 14, 2020

Several decades ago, when the average person had perhaps a more competent grasp of power politics than they do today, …

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“And The Glitter Is Gone”: On How to Leave the EU with Emotional Intelligence.

February 2, 2020

The sun is setting over New York. We are on a roof, with the horizon at waist level, and with …

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Book Review: Mindf*ck.

January 8, 2020

Christopher Wylie is this bratty young Canadian guy with the pink lid who had “blown the whistle” on the Vote …

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Labour’s “It’s Time For Real Change” is a post-Brexit manifesto.

November 26, 2019

Brexiteers, or anybody with any lingering attachment to democracy, are likely to be offended by the Labour party’s latest Brexit …

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The Humiliation of the European Parliament.

March 12, 2019

You have to be very determined to find anything that is humorous to the bleak mixture of nightmare and tragedy …

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Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.

October 7, 2016

“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …

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Democracy on Trial Postscript: Focus on Turkey.

July 16, 2016

And so, with officers being wrenched from the turrets of their tanks and most men in uniform with their hands …

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A Tale of Middle-Class Hysteria.

June 29, 2016

“Nigel Farage has told a session of the European Parliament that “the little people” had rejected “big politics” in order …

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Nicola Sturgeon: The Politics of Hate.

June 27, 2016

Following the Brexit vote, hatred has been unleashed across the nation. Demagoguery is currently at its most nimble, in seeking …

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How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.

June 25, 2016

Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …

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