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Mar 29 2025

Patriarchal Panic: Reactionary Machismo, Zero-Sum Politics, and Radicalisation

Stijn Vogels

Like many well-meaning, left-leaning, oat-milk-drinking adults, my partner and I watched Netflix’s Adolescence with the fascinated dread of watching a gender implode in real time. The insecure man, afraid of losing his crown, therefore doubles down on his dominant behaviour. At the heart of it...

Dec 17 2023

The infamous five Prime Ministers

Jon Danzig

The five Conservative Prime Ministers of this millennium have cumulatively inflicted such deeply ingrained damage to our country that it may take generations to repair what they have done.Of the five, four strongly supported EU membership before the referendum. They knew in their hearts and heads...

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Dec 06 2023

Boris Johnson: Sorry is too easy

Jon Danzig

No matter what he does wrong – and there’s a thick catalogue of wrongs – Boris Johnson thinks he can just say “sorry” and everything will be fine.But everything isn’t fine and sorry won’t do.On 6 December 2023 at the Covid public inquiry, Boris Johnson said he was “deeply sorry” for the victims of...

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Nov 28 2023

How freaky hair 'won' in the Netherlands and Britain

Jon Danzig

An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold...

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Oct 27 2022

Sunak is a bigger Brexiter than Johnson

Jon Danzig

So, Rishi Sunak has been crowned the second ‘unelected’ Tory Prime Minister in as many months. Is the country ‘Ready for Rishi’? Well, the country has no choice. The new Prime Minister has been anointed by just 194 Conservative MPs. We don’t get a say.Although in the UK we don’t directly elect a...

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Oct 05 2022

True Tories were Remainers

Jon Danzig

Conservatives, have you forgotten what your party in power used to stand for regarding Europe?For most of the past seven decades, Tory governments did more than any other to bring us closer to our continent.After all:It’s because of the Conservatives that the UK applied to join the European...

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