Tag: Crime
The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but...
For years, a small but vocal corner of the extremely online right has looked to the ancient world to justify its polluted brand of...
Trump’s hypocritical new tariffs are a chance for the world to...
Here he goes again. The US President, Donald Trump, is increasing and decreasing tariffs willy-nilly, violating international agreements that he himself signed and almost...
In the battle of Elon Musk v the press, we can’t...
Elon Musk’s long interview with the editor of the Economist is as good a representation as any of the current clash between two worlds....
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs...
No more resistance in the US. The era of human rights is over, and dissent is once more forbidden. This is what certain billionaires...
Will Burnham fix our barbaric prisons – or cave to rightwing...
Andy Burnham’s “pausing” of the Starmer government’s prisoner release scheme and the resignation of its architect, James Timpson, are disasters. They indicate a Downing...
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time...
There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956, and Trump’s campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism.Both regimes...
