The UK is an authoritarian country

Britain is often portrayed as a champion of “freedom” and “democracy” both by our government and its faithful servants in the media, as well as anyone else who clearly does not know any better. Mostly we are told that we are a free and democratic country because we “stand up” to dictatorships, a point bolstered…

Life after Boris and the prospect of a Labour government

The old cruelty of Boris Johnson has passed. Let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over the land, courtesy of the new Prime Minister Liz Truss and her cadre of reactionary ideologues. Having trounced leadership rival and reluctant realist Rishi Sunak by about 20,000 votes, Truss has begun the task of building a government…

On the last days of Boris Johnson

A long nightmare appears to be coming to an end. On Thursday, following a wave of ministerial resignations, Boris Johnson, hitherto the Prime Minister of Britain, has unceremoniously decided to resign his post, clinging on like an ulcer until a new leader is elected. Much of the party, however, would prefer to oust him straight…

The national mythology of Brexit Britain

Introduction: The True Meaning of Brexit Six years ago, I voted Leave in the EU referendum, and was at that time a vocal critic of the Remain camp. Disillusioned with the left as misrepresented by people like Owen Jones and Jess Phillips, I could already feel myself drifting to the right back then, and yet…

The lessons from France

France’s presidential election ended pretty much exactly how everyone predicted it would: the first round ended with the liberal Macron and the fascist Le Pen advancing to the run-off vote, which just ended with Macron emerging as the clear winner, albeit by a smaller margin of 58.5% to Le Pen’s 41.5%. While it is disappointing…

Welcome back to the eighties, the real eighties that is

If you’ve ever hated the 21st century so much that you wished that everything would go back to the 1980s, congratulations you’re getting exactly what you wanted. Late capitalist society is regressing back to the 1980s, and I don’t simply mean in terms of aesthetics and legislated nostalgia. Beneath the neon facade, we are seeing…

Against the “living with Covid” death cult

About two years ago, Britain went into lockdown as we were facing down the threat of COVID-19. Most if not all of us were taking the virus seriously, and we had every reason to considering it could kill our loved ones without any of us knowing we had it until it was too late. Two…

The socialist case for Welsh independence

Introduction: The Impasse of British Wales I have written frequently about the dire state of my country on this blog. Our economy has suffered greatly as a result of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the complications of the government’s Brexit deal. We are soon to be hit with a cost of living crisis that the…

On Ukraine and US imperialism

Throughout the past few weeks, almost all you’ve been hearing about on the news has been Ukraine, specifically how Vladimir Putin is supposedly about to invade Ukraine and how we’re on the brink of war, with the blame mostly going to Russia as though the West did nothing to escalate tensions. That you are hearing…

Crossing the imaginary aisle

Probably one the strangest things that could possibly happen in British politics is when a Tory MP defects over to the Labour Party, namely because this hasn’t happened in fifteen years, but apparently this has indeed happened. On Wednesday, right before the start of the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions, Tory MP Christian Wakeford announced his…