Following Labour’s November budget, much of the commentariat mourned the supposed death of New Labour. The Times’s Danny Finkelstein, for instance, suggested the fiscal event marked the end of the ‘New Labour dream’ , while The Independent’s John Rentoul suggested the faction laid buried beneath the budget . Much of the country will, however, have, even if quietly, been uttering the following sentiment subsequent to reading of its passing: ‘phew’. Seen as a necessary evil by

This Trump administration’s recent Latin American chevauchées are old school. But the world has moved on since Monroe, and regional actors may well respond in more modern manners to the egregious treatment of Venezuela. ‘Gunboat diplomacy’ was the name awarded, perhaps most famously, to the actions of US Commodore Perry in the 1850s. The USA gained access to the closed-off Japanese economy by pounding Japanese infrastructure from the sea until it got its way. Though this infa

The Balkan Legacy  Winston Churchill supposedly posited that the Balkans produced far too much history for it to be accurately consumed, largely echoing the typical “orientalism” rhetoric that Edward Said aptly pronounced as the ignorance many in the West have of anything the wrong side of Rome. Once more, Western nations have made a deep folly in not fully appreciating the precariousness of the peace following the Homeland War of the 1990s  in the former Yugoslavia. Througho

“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

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

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

Edmund Burke  is synonymous with conservatism. The namesake of a foundation  that serves the right on both sides of the Atlantic, Burke...

If you stroll down certain high streets this month, you might think the World Cup final is around the corner. Red crosses stain...

Variations of the phrase ‘it’s X year’, a common expression used by the more progressive-minded, are used either in response to bigoted...

Glastonbury has become globally renowned for its music festival; a vibrant celebration of sound, spectacle, and social commentary. But...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion In The Open Society and its Enemies  Karl Popper spoke of "Social Engineering" as a tool applied...

Today, the 15th March, marks the anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. Caesars death was followed by civil war and the...

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

Godzina W  (Hour W) was the codename for 5pm, on the 1st of August 1944. 80 years ago, on that day, and on that hour, the Polish...