I had the opportunity to attend An Evening With Zarah Sultana at the University of Surrey, graciously hosted by Amelie Abass . As I entered the building, socialist campaigners unaffiliated with the university passed out pamphlets outside, which promised alliances with trade unions, standing up to Reform, and not much more. That seemed to be an appropriate introduction to the night. Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South since 2019, formerly of Labour Party fame, is now kno

New Yorkers have now experienced about two months under the new Mamdani administration. Last November, more than a million New Yorkers, including myself, headed to the polls and cast our ballots for Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral election drew significant media attention from within the five boroughs and beyond. Mamdani stood out as markedly younger than his opponents, born in Uganda, and as New York City’s first Muslim mayor. Yet the aspect that drew the greatest

Few politicians since the turn of the century have taken the world by storm quite like Zohran Mamadani . He seems to have graduated from the Tony Blair school of charming and underproduced campaign videos, swapping the three-piece suits and out-of-date TikTok trends of his peers for genuine, boots-on-the-ground campaigning. And, if you ignore the added benefit of speaking three different languages, it worked. Mamdani was sworn in as the 112 th Mayor of New York City at the

Erich Maria Remarque’s beautifully tragic novel, Flotsam (1939) , elaborates the immense hardship many Jews and immigrants faced in the collapse of an already convulsing Europe on the eve of war. His articulate storytelling conveys the brutality many refugees withstood, from the harshness of border officials to the absence of trust between refugees themselves. Like Remarque, Orwell described in Why I Write the many problems glaring at European leaders during the chaos of the