If Snowden, Huawei, TSMC signalled a new fear of tech dependency, Nord Stream II and the US embargo on fuel for Cuba should ring alarm bells on the risks of fossil fuels for the sovereignty of those without major deposits. Renewables against chokepoints! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies

My latest piece on the commentators who repeat social-conservative arguments while presenting themselves as heterodox truthtellers www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos... @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Starmer's faction would rather burn the Labour party to the ground than lose control. New column 👇

My suspicion is that the BBC's both sides manner of reporting that dominates any reporting on allied 'regimes' is that it goes back at least to John Birt's reforms of the news division when the autonomy by journalists of reporting and their management was crushed.

Who really runs Britain? Was great to talk to the excellent @samfriedman.bsky.social for the latest D4S Really struck by his idea of a ‘symbolic marketplace for ordinariness’ - how politicians try to present as ‘ordinary’ when they are anything but democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

you can really see how the CIA influenced the Frankfurt School in this assessment 😜

Ancient ice’s secrets can give us a look into the future-The project provides hope for the future even as the political consensus around climate change wobbles. Just as DNA in criminal cases was archived speculatively… www.ft.com/content/b60a... @anjahuja.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

“As America prepares to commemorate its 250th anniversary, the republic is flirting with its own funeral.” My column. www.ft.com/content/dede...

Ahead of Your Party’s internal elections, the Grassroots Left insist there are no shortcuts to socialism: maximum democracy is the only way forward.

This is a really good essay from Juliet Jacques on intellectuals & the politics of the media. novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/t...

Be more Andrew Clements, not Scott Adams. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

"[T]he Labour Party cannot shake its belief that the UK faces a greater threat from a fragmented and disorganised left than it does from a nativist right led by a genuine antisemite." More ... fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2026/01/what...

A useful take, from a Dutch perspective, on the Maccabi gospel. whispering.media/the-maccabi-...

It's worth contrasting the IOPC's determination to take this matter further with its report on Hillsborough published in December, and in particular its comments on the role of the WMP in the original review of the conduct of the South Yorkshire Police. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating long read about Tooze by @robertpbaird.com. (But how the hell has Tooze managed to write another book, given Chartbook and everything else?)

What connects Trump‘s Caracas kidnapping with the fatal ICE raid in Minneapolis? They are twin components of what Nikhil Pal Singh describes as America’s new “Homeland Empire”. www.equator.org/articles/hom...

LUCE, on the “Sell America” trade. @edwardluce.bsky.social @financialtimes.com 🇺🇸 www.ft.com/content/331e...

"He can be sacked, humiliated, live (temporarily) in disgrace. But it doesn't matter. If the wealthy or the powerful need him, he'll still be their best pal."

‘The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic between 1900 and 1934.’ Tony Wood on Trump and Venezuela, online now from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tariq Ali on Maduro's ouster: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Tooze disagrees that Resource imperialism is an explanation for Trumpists actions. Why not? 1 Assets are small. Oil is heavy & difficult to recover economically 2 Financial liabilities of VZ govt are large Concludes that trump likes "cosplaying" as imperialist adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

This is such an incredible piece, with soooo many amazing links and so much info that I didn’t even know (e.g. Pinochet being involved in drug-running!): prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

I found 2 excellent short articles on Venezuela that sums it up. One on the USA - imhojournal.org/articles/opp.... One on Venezuela that needs translation - marx21.net/2026/01/04/a...

re-upping this Rob Knox essay re: how little is actually accomplished by going 'b-b-but that's ILLEGAL' salvage.zone/the-right-ag...

Here's me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social arguing that the only way to forestall a Reform government is to make a more decisive break with neoliberalism than Starmer is ever going to, or most of the parliamentary 'soft left' still seem capable of imagining. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Its no surprise to see Pearson, Heath and Littlejohn in that list for offenses against the person, but that both Phillips and Parris are permitted to pose as moderate centrist voices in the 'normal' mainstream media is symptomatic of the decadence within our media.

Feed: "Brave New Europe" By: Mathew D. Rose on Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Merry Christmas! Here’s the gift you definitely didn’t ask for… the penultimate part of the 25 Worst Columns of 2025 brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...

“…while the prisoners are, of course, suffering greatly physically, and they understand the risk of death, there’s an incredible level of commitment, of resilience, of steadfastness, of certainty in the righteousness of their cause.” newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

In fact, the PO's thinking is better explained by its history and institutional memory, and by the muddled political thinking behind the eulogisation of small business owners. fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/01/beyo...

I wrote a personal essay on what it has meant for me witnessing events in Gaza since October 2023. I would be grateful if you help spread it. These were painful, disturbing conclusions to reach. But inescapable…

new today: for the first time in English, two brilliant essays by Natalia Ginzburg, "Universal Pity" and "The Jews," translated by Gini Alhadeff, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra www.equator.org/articles/our...

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel Amu Gib is an activist currently being held at HMP Bronzefield Amu Gib is one of eight prisoners on hunger strike who are awaiting trial for...

Find out in today's story: www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-mcdonald...

NEW | There are some familiar faces in the latest part of the year’s most calamitous chart… The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Three: Clarkson vs the NHS, the phoney war on 'woke', and Boris' beard buffet brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...

"On the grounds of never interrupting your enemy while he is making a mistake, Xi Jinping is 2025’s winner." My column on how Trump has given China a great leap forward. as.ft.com/r/dbe877e6-6...

Amid the genocide in Gaza, British leaders have actively cooperated with Israel in their military, trade and diplomatic policies. Still now, major sanctions on Israel are off the agenda because the establishment chooses to back Israel in its criminality👇 www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals...

The Critical Theorists were always right - media ownership is more than just another Capitalist venture - plutocrats use ownership to shape public attitudes favorable to organized wealth www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...

Israel Lobby EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened at the BBC

'The bourgeois media buried the lede, which is that the conference passed off without a split, settled the Party’s constitution and endorsed the bare outline of a socialist credo.' Tom Hazeldine reports from Your Party's inaugural conference: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Now up on our site, a transcript version of our interview with Phil Neel, where we discuss his recent book "Hellworld," political subjectivity, his understanding of capital, and more: www.negationmag.com/articles/end...

It mustn't be said that receiving the same present every Christmas is boring, if the giver is Mic Wright. Giles Coren comparing himself to Georgy Markov's murder by the BBC/KGB is a Giles Classic and Sarah Vine is in top form as the Mystic Meg in reading the future and genes of our future king.

"When historians assess this age of American populism, Silicon Valley’s plutocrats will surely be judged its winners." Me on Trump's love of the broligarchy and what that means for Europe and Maga's future. as.ft.com/r/55519a35-2...

Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show? Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/has-the-br...

If one of the things the genocide in Gaza has done is unmask the state of Israel, exposing it for what it always was, it has also unmasked the liberal establishment in Western countries. We have now seen what such people do in the face of every imaginable horror it is possible to inflict............