Macron’s France offers a political mirror which Starmer’s Labour ignores at its peril. After years of cautious positioning, Labour has stumbled through the opening phase of government, seemingly unaware of a public exhausted by decline and impatient for visible change. Macron began his project with similar ambitions – technocratic renewal through post-tribal politics – but it has collapsed under a failure to deliver significant structural reform, fracturing the political land

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

It often seems that the next general election is a matter of months away, with seemingly no escape from Nigel Farage’s 24/7 media coverage and gleeful references to Keir Starmer and Labour’s abysmal polling. Elon Musk continues to interfere with UK politics, most recently by appearing via video link at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march and proclaiming that parliament must be dissolved . Meanwhile, Starmer's government endured a late-summer of internal crises  and the Prime Minist

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

Chile is facing its most complicated political landscape since the return of democracy. The outlook for the presidential elections in...

If there's one thing the Spanish left has always suffered from, it's a lack of unity. This is currently evident in the dispute between...

On March 31st, 2025, France experienced a political "earthquake". The figurehead of Rassemblement National (RN), Marine Le Pen, was found...

The last decade has been a transformative one globally; whether it is the rise of a new multipolar order transforming our geopolitical reality; the acceleration of technological growth and its respective sociopolitical and economic implications; or the uncertainty of late stage capitalism, the world is definitely transitioning towards a new age which we might have glimpse of, albeit a blurry one. This apparent shift is also being felt in the political realm with the crisis in

As the year draws to a close, we look upon an almost unrecognisable Europe. From the collapse of the tricolour government of Olaf Scholz...

You could hear the sighs of relief from the Federal Chancellery halfway across the continent. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) edged...

Across France over 100,000 people have taken to the streets in protest of what they perceive as a stolen election, the will of the people...