Steamrolling towards the 2010 General Election, and needing to recoup votes lost to David Cameron’s Conservatives and ‘ Cleggmania ’, Prime Minister Gordon Brown headed to Rochdale to engage with Joe Public. Unfortunately for him, it all ended up going awry, as Brown ended up committing a political gaffe of the ages following his televised conversation with 66-year-old Gillian Duffy. The exchange  touched on pensions, university tuition, and immigration, as well as other topi

Season's greetings, Karl (and to you, my esteemed reader). There’s just something about self-verifying utopianism that doesn’t quite hit the spot the rest of the year , but it’s Christmas, so let’s cut Marx some seasonal slack. This isn’t solely an assault on the long-since-dead ideologue, but rather a repository of festive feedback, reflecting not only on Marx’s conceptualisation of surplus value and capitalism, but our conceptualisation of Christmas, too. Though undoubtedly

We’re in a political epoch where no principle, institution, or authority is sacred. Everything is questioned, debated, and assessed within an inch of its life. Sometimes, it's unclear if there’s anything we all universally agree upon – if there is anything hallowed, permitted to go unquestioned. Political change is undoubtedly essential as an agent of progress, but sometimes we broaden debate so much that we lose focus on what matters. I recently spent a lecture entertaining

Fun, smart, action-heavy, angry, and above all, politically aware are all accurate labels for Edgar Wright’s new film, The Running Man . Famous for his helm of cult-classic Shaun of the Dead , The Running Man  is Wright’s first Stephen King adaptation, whose works are genre-defining, many having been adapted into equally impactful films. The Shining , Shawshank Redemption , The Green Mile , and It  spring to mind, and while King is far from an apolitical writer, The Running M

It just can’t help itself; the BBC seems to want to see itself killed off. At a time when Britain’s precarious financial position means no household expense is left unscrutinised, a damning dossier  reported by The Telegraph  calls into question not only the way the corporation is run (as a public corporation), but whether it should even exist at all. Within said dossier were several damning breaches of impartiality, a crucial BBC principle, which included the splicing togeth

For context, ‘new left’ encompasses both the recently formed Your Party and the revitalised Green Party under Zack Polanski.  At the moment, these two separate parties have even been campaigning side-by-side, in a somewhat wholesome, but more so politically disconcerting joint campaigning effort that won’t last ten minutes. They appear tethered in a codependent manner, comparable to the graphic horror of Michael Shank’s Together , though they are distinct political entities w

Though I cannot recall quite how, I recently stumbled across a fascinating POLITICO  article by former Harvard lecturer John F. Muller titled “ Halloween Is More Political Than You Think ”. It discusses trick-or-treating in America, focusing specifically on Milwaukee, and the surprising observations Halloween brings to the table in discussions on both racial and class divisions. Muller explores how poor, inner-city ethnic minorities often travel to affluent white suburbs duri

The work of Marx has endured in the minds of the scholarly and unscholarly alike since its publication; he is both the authoritative...

British politics is volatile as of late. The UK’s political parties are all clamouring for an ascendancy amidst the Labour government’s...

It has been enjoyable to exchange with fellow Europinion writer Andrés De Miguel, but this will be the last word on our quarrel. I hope...

illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Phototropism: the process by which plants grow towards the sun, leaning closer toward their food...

Given China’s 76-year rule under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the USA’s historic crusade against Communist ideology, and the...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion The entrenched sovereignty of its Constitution governs the political systems of the US. Among its...