In the latest move to curb immigration fears in the face of Reform UK’s extraordinary polling performances, the government has announced plans to introduce mandatory digital ID cards. The scheme will be rolled out “by the end of parliament,”  and has done little to improve the government’s reputation for cracking down on civil liberties. The digital cards will be needed to prove a person’s right to live and work in the UK but will not have to be carried all the time. Plans pu

“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination …” An apropos quote from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a longtime prisoner of the gulag and dissident from Soviet Russia. The insights that we have today from the Cold War, whether Soviet gulag prisoners or those struck down in the hysteria of McCarthyism, have become crucially important in the United States of late, as T

It was supposed to be a morning of celebration on their most holy of days. Instead, it became the epicentre of the day that antisemitism...

The USA’s modern food security policy can be traced to 1943 when President Roosevelt initiated the United Nations Conference on Food and...

On July 21, 2025, one day after the pivotal elections for the Upper House in Japan, a crowd of devoted supporters went into a frenzy,...

Zohran Mamdani “won’t be getting any” federal funding to fulfill his campaign promises if elected mayor, declared Donald Trump on Truth...

Writing this from New York City, from research conducted studying in London and visiting Stockholm, immigration seems to be the fons et...

Keir Starmer has always reminded me of one of those schoolteachers – the perfectly decent, dithering kind whom good kids pity, and bad...

China’s infamous fishing fleet ranks among the gravest emerging threats to global security: a flagrant assault on the environment, a...

Articles four and five  of the North Atlantic Treaty have been on every European leader’s lips this past week, as Russian drones were...

Before he became the UK’s most famous metro mayor, Andy Burnham was just a regular politician, an MP. This Andy Burnham was a rather...

The EU should seize the momentum. The results of Moldova’s parliamentary elections demonstrate a decisive political shift. Pro-Russian...

The assassination in Utah  of the Christian Conservative influencer, Charlie Kirk, has cast a chilling shadow over many in the United...

As heightened tensions and security competition come to define international politics, there has been something of an increase in...

Pre-election analysis of disinformation, crackdowns, interference, and oligarchic politics in the tense run-up to Moldova’s 2025 legislative elections.  Moldova is on the brink of a pivotal parliamentary election scheduled for tomorrow (28 September), a vote widely seen as a fateful choice between integration with Europe or a return to Russia’s orbit. In the final week before this high-stakes election, the country of 2.6 million has experienced anything but calm. All those I

If it was not already abundantly clear, Reform UK’s pledge to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain status  (ILR) confirms their stance on...

On Saturday 13 th  September, thousands flocked to the UK’s capital for the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally. The rally was organised and led by...

Humans are obsessed with the ‘super’.  We immortalise classical heroes and idolise their modern successors. The enduring popularity of...

‘Every democratic politician must be arrested, and the party banned under RICO.’  These were the words of far-right activist Matt Forney...

Over the weekend, upwards of a hundred thousand people took to the streets for the so-called Unite the Kingdom  march, a protest that has...