Realpolitik’s return, crystallised at Davos by Mark Carney, leaves failed, fractured, and fulcrum states like Libya more vulnerable and volatile than ever, argues Eddie Monkman. #Libya #Davos #Geopolitics #Realism #Realpolitik

Starmer’s omnishambles - which might see him cling on, perform a soft-left pivot, or suffer defenestration - now holds the power of life and death over Labour leftism’s future, argues Frederick Graham. #KeirStarmer #UnitedKingdom #Politics #Labour #UKPolitics #Britain

Journalism has allowed a techno-oligarchy to grow inside it, parasitically corrupting its principles and co-opting its publications - so is serious journalism is still breathing? www.europinion.uk/post/is-jour... #Journalism #Technology #News #FleetStreet #UnitedKingdom

Danylo Nikiforov draws on his interviews with senior IR figures in this granular and critical review of Northern European and Arctic military methods in the shadow of Ukraine. www.europinion.uk/post/a-briti... #Defence #UnitedKingdom #Nordic #Scandinavia #NATO #Ukraine

Venezuela’s golden opportunities, after decades of autocratic deepening, are being tarnished by apathy, anti-Americanism, and idealism, argues Víctor Agustín Elizondo Lomelí. www.europinion.uk/post/venezue... #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump #UnitedStates #Geopolitics #Oil

Frederick Graham explains why local governments from Guangdong to Gloucestershire to Georgia are drowning in debt, and why what ties them together is an autocratic instinct. #Politics #Economics #Governance #Austerity #Finance

Latin America’s 2025 lurch to the right creates an unprecedented polarisation challenge in times of heightened tensions and reduced growth, argues Victor Elizondo. #LatinAmerica #Geopolitics #Politics #Clientelism #Authoritarianism

Trump’s Board of Peace having met this week, Jake Crapper contends it is now impossible to avoid direct parallels to those leaders of last century who similarly sold war as peace. #Trump #Geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #BoardofPeace #UnitedNations

South Africa’s colonial amnesia is facilitating another gender apartheid, argues Lucy Tappin. #Gender #SouthAfrica #ANC #Ramaphosa #Apartheid #Femicide

ICE is mightily popular in Westminster, if Badenoch’s British ICE proposals, and Mahmood’s Panopticon delusions, are anything to go by. So when and how are these brave 'new brownshirts' coming to Britain? europinion.uk/post/ice-in-... #ICE #UK #Politics #Immigration #BorderSecurity

Unburdened by its vermin - with more and more craven defectors fleeing a sinking ship - the Tories have a golden opportunity to pursue sane and genuine conservatism, argues Jasper Goddard. #Tories #ReformUK #Jenrick #Braverman #Farage #UnitedKingdom #Politics

Sabre-rattling a superpower is justified if it sparks a national self-confidence not seen in decades, argues Nikita Triandafillidis in this spirited defence of Sanae Takaichi’s populist foreign policy. #Takaichi #Japan #Politics #Geopolitics #China

Gorton & Denton will be Starmerism’s grave, argues Will Allen in this patient vivisection of Labour’s decision to cripple its most popular and politically potent player. #Starmer #Streeting #Burnham #Rayner #Labour #Politics #UKPolitics

Selene Lopez draws on Nietzsche and Weber to detail, through the prism of unilateral American action contra Maduro, the seduction and spread of the very corrosive weapons of autocracy liberal democracy was supposedly anathema to. #UnitedStates #Politics #Trump #MAGA #America #Democracy

Emrah Roni Mira exhaustively elucidates the Maduro debacle via a triptych of perspectives: the modern Monroe Doctrine, global energy chess game, and boundary problems of international jurisdiction. #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump #Geopolitics #UnitedStates

Libyan ‘El Hishri’ is now on trial for crimes against humanity committed under the auspices of a since renewed Italy-Libya deal, an irony betraying Europe’s Janus-faced asylum policy, says Eddie Monkman. www.europinion.uk/post/the-eu-... #Libya #ICC #HumanRights #Asylum #Italy #ElHishri

The BBC has become a lightning rod in a widening populist assault on Britain’s institutions, forcing a choice between defending imperfect but vital institutions or conceding to rhetoric that thrives on mistrust. www.europinion.uk/post/who-s-a... #BBC #Politics #Populism #UnitedKingdom

A boon of agricultural staples has saddled American farmers with depressed prices and the Trump administration with an unenviable choice - argues Charles Cann. www.europinion.uk/post/the-pai... #Agriculture #Policy #Farming #Trump #MAGA #Food

Atatürk's hollowed out legacy, maintained as a mirage by an increasingly 'Islamist' Erdogan, reduces, contends Lucy Tappin, an icon of secular progress to a deified veneer for conservatism. www.europinion.uk/post/underst... #Türkiye #Politics #Atatürk #Secularism #Conservatism #Erdogan

Rutte’s resolute inertia in the face of the Western world order’s Death by Trump amounts to appeasing whilst Rome burns, argues Katie Bevan in this firecracker of a call to arms. www.europinion.uk/post/rutte-i... #NATO #UnitedStates #Trump #Greenland #West #Geopolitics #Military

“Country first, party second” has seen Starmer alienate his MPs and wreck his prospects of reforming Britain, argues Will Allen in this impassioned plea for a Labour Party which puts itself first. www.europinion.uk/post/keir-st... #Labour #UnitedKingdom #UKPolitics #Starmer #KierStarmer

Cinemas proffer a unique phenomenology of resistance contra an atomising modernity, argues Tom Lowe in this love letter to cinemas as deeply personal third spaces. www.europinion.uk/post/cinema-... #Cinema #Culture #Arts #Society #Opinions #OpEd

Pathetic MAGA mimicry has seen Britain’s right come to hate it, argues Tom Watkins in revealing such self-sabotage as fostered by Washington, and as taking on a life of its own. www.europinion.uk/post/the-pol... #UnitedKingdom #UKPolitics #USPolitics #MAGA #Trump #Farage #ReformUK

“The chickens come home to roost.” As Malcom X said of JFK’s death, so says Pritish Das of Trumpian domestic fascism in this masterful polemic against American imperialism from Kabul to Caracas. www.europinion.uk/post/coming-... #Trump #Venezuela #Iraq #USPolitics #MAGA #Geopolitics

Charlie Cann roots Washington's Venezuela foray in a history of its arrogant unilateralism, concluding that little has changed or can change for the pawns in Uncle Sam’s Latin America. #Venezuela #Maduro #USA #DonaldTrump #Donroe #LatinAmerica #Geopolitics

Viktor Schlatte explores the Kremlin’s inescapably suicidal refusal to accept ever-sweeter ceasefires, outlining the sorry state of an economy which will give out long before Putin’s ego. #Ukraine #Russia #Economics #Donbas #Economy #Putin

The imperialist consent-manufacturing machine - malcoordinated though Mar-a-Lago’s is - has leapt into action along precisely the protocols developed for the Iraq War, argues Gemma Gradwell. #MAGA #Trump #Imperialism #Venezuela #Cuba #Colombia #Iraq

The Balkans have been stuck between a Tsarist Kremlin and an expansionist eagle (Austria-Hungary then, oddly Tsarist America now) for more than a century - Zach Rogers explains. #Balkans #Russia #Geopolitics #Politics

Charles Cann critiques inter alia the corrosive crutch that consultancy has become in this masterful survey of how Britain might get a grip on its productivity problem. #Economics #Management #Productivity #Economy #UnitedKingdom

Cody Forster draws on Panievsky’s The New Censorship to problematise journalism today, urging us not to reify its demise nor pine for old Fleet Street, rendered dear by distance but odious in its own way. #Journalism #Censorship #Freedom #Democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress

The SNP prefer “rhetorical radicalism to meaningful reform” as part of maintaining a sorry status quo so as to blame Westminster for each and every ill, argues Frederick Graham. www.europinion.uk/post/the-snp... #Scotland #UnitedKingdom #SNP #UKPolitics #Politics

Gradualist reforms and a deceptively frail majority have left Starmer needing long-termist policy and quick wins on the politics side - a deleterious and insoluble conundrum. #Starmer #Labour #Politics #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom

Graeber’s debt re-imagination of money proffers irony (capitalism’s evisceration of its originating trust-based communities) and hope (that such cosmopolitan trust is retrievable) today. #Capitalism #Debt #Economics #Socioeconomics #Money #OpEd

Andy Street is best positioned to right the right’s course, and vanquish the identity politics psychodrama practiced by both shades of blue British conservatism, argues Konrad Szumiński. #AndyStreet #Conservatives #Tories #ReformUK #UKPolitics #Politics

Rory Currie's primer on late-capitalist consumerism, invoking psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, elaborates bitterly utopian dreams of metaphysical freedom in an age of capitalist realism. #Capitalism #Consumerism #ErichFromm #Economics #Society #OpEd

Arsima Bereketab elaborates the myriad manners in which Britain’s dismal schooling permits, and indeed facilitates and compounds, class inequalities within and beyond education. #Education #UnitedKingdom #UKPolitics #Schools #Socioeconomic

Lived experiences, of the decayed urban sprawls set to turn light blue, proffer an anti-Reform strategy rooted in respect for those Reform likewise takes for granted, argues Cianan Sheekey. #Reform #ReformUK #WorkingClass #Urban #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom #Farage

Europinion keeps pluralist debate alive in an age of echo chambers. Our founder and managing director, Will Kingston-Cox, reflects on 2025. #Europinion #MediaLiteracy #Pluralism #Democracy #FreeSpeech #Discussion

Paul Recean, Will Kingston-Cox, and Alexandru Cojocar problematise Moldova's energy interregnum in this granular blueprint of a greener, freer, safer Moldova - unplugged from Russia at last. #Moldova #Energy #Security #Renewables #Climate #Investment #Infrastructure #Europe #Russia

Trump’s National Security Strategy abandons allies, lauds 'crypto-fascists', and lets mortal enemies off scot-free - sculpting the world to his avarice and malice, argues Viktor Schlatte. #Trump #NATO #Russia #China #Defence #ForeignPolicy #USPolitics

Epstein refuses to stay dead, but can anything stick to Teflon Trump? Cody Forster argues the MAGA movement, from grassroots to the sexual predator-in-chief, is beginning to feel the pain. #Epstein #Trump #USPolitics #UnitedStates #MAGA #EpsteinFiles

The South Caucasus boast much of the burgeoning growth and trade relationships Britain sorely needs, and moreover from which Britain can still profit, argues Sam Chandler. #UnitedKingdom #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Georgia #Economics #Europe #UKPolitics #Economy

Post-Assad Syria is as hopeful as it is fractured, and likely to be Balkanized at the hands of a chronically frail centre and Turkish & US red lines, contends Emrah Roni Mira. #Syria #Israel #Turkey #Russia #UnitedStates #Military #Politics #Geopolitics

Trump’s peacemaking preoccupation is perennially frustrated by his childish changeability, warmongering against Venezuela being the latest oddity disconcerting even the MAGA base. #Trump #USPolitics #MAGA #Venezuela #DonaldTrump

Bearded and dishing out just deserts to the naughty and nice, Marx and Santa are equal parts clarificatory of the consumerist nightmare Christmas has become, argues Cianan Sheekey. #Marx #Politics #Economics #Christmas #Consumerism

Cyprus will be re-centred next month when it assumes the EU presidency, but can the ever-bellicose Erdogan be brought to the table? And will the Israel-Greece-Cyprus alliance help or hinder negotiations? #Israel #Cyprus #Greece #EU #Türkiye #Politics

Siniša Karan is set to succeed Dodik as Republika Srpska president, solidifying the region’s ultranationalism in a manner threatening to become another Hungary-style enemy within, argues Zach Rogers. www.europinion.uk/post/beating... #BosniaHerzegovina #Dodik #RepublikaSrpska #Serbia #Politics

Labour, record-breakingly unpopular as they are, should be loath to needlessly rob constituents of fundamental rights - Kate Bevan, however, argues Lammy’s jury proposals do just that. #Politics #UnitedKingdom #UKPolitics #Labour #Legal #Criminal

Northern Ireland education minister Paul Givan’s grandstanding annexed West Bank visit is a window into odious Unionist melding of protestantism and paramilitaries, argues Fergus Wright. #NorthernIreland #UnitedKingdom #Politics #Identity #Ulster

Reeves’s budget balloons the benefits bill such that some three children families will be taking £70k off of the taxpayer. Some Christmas present to working families… #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom #Economy #RachelReeves #Labour #Benefits