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Capitalism is a class system, and in recent years billionaires and their retainers have grown more brazen in asserting this basic social fac...

Nigel Farage has used every opportunity to fabricate a persecution complex. Being criticised for pocketing £5m and facing a standards inquir...

Come and hear me speak in Birmingham this Wednesday!

As of Saturday evening, Artemis II is more than half way along its sally to the Moon. The crew's journey is full of firsts. The furthest...

As the third gulf war drags into its fifth week, neither the end nor the end game are anywhere in sight. Big bets on the stock market before...

While defections are in the news, there's another that might be worth reporting on. My own. Yesterday I cancelled my Your Party members...

A call for papers! The Midlands Conference in Critical Thought will be held on 21st and 22nd May 2026 at the University of Warwick. The ca...

Caspar Geon (AKA Tom Toner)'s The Immeasurable Heaven set off ripples of interest with its promise of a 100% alien cast of characters. ...

On how many occasions has Elon Musk used Twitter to declare war on Keir Starmer's government? How often has he stoked racism, intervened...

Folks may or may not know that I'm currently reacquainting myself with the work of Jean Baudrillard as part of a research project around...

The other week, a long-time reader of this blog put a question to me. They asked what warranted the assumption that if Keir Starmer did this...

I owe Geoffrey Wheatcroft something of a debt. Before getting hold of John Ross's Thatcher and Friends , which argued that the blessed M...

Happen to be at a loose end in Derby on Thursday 22nd May? Why not come to The Quad and listen to me speak about a paper I have in the wor...

Labour can win the next election without pandering to right wing prejudices. That's not your run-of-the-mill left winger arguing this, b...

Data pervades everything. For those of us whose employment does not produce data, our consumption does as phones, computers, televisions, an...

It's a while since Acid Horizon product was last featured as a gap filler on this blog, a tradition I'm happy to resurrect on night...

In another disaster class at Prime Minister's Questions, Kemi Badenoch attacked Keir Starmer for not prioritising immigration as one of ...

A book about spiders? Hallowe'en must be approaching. But on this occasion, it's not our eight-legged friends who are the horrors. I...