Starmer leaves Holborn and St Pancras to Polanski
The machinery of British power wears down to bare metal when the people who built it walk away.
By Caroline Ashford ·
election — Lorien Times
AfD attacks Bauhaus, and modern fascism repeats the old script
By Josie Calloway ·
AfD's 41% in Saxony-Anhalt proves Washington miscalculates
The current spectacle unfolding in Saxony-Anhalt is far more than a regional political squabble over the fate of Magdeburg or the allocation of funds for old chemical triangle jobs.
By Emilio Quesada ·
EU noted limited freedoms as authorities arrest opposition in Lusaka
You read the headline—Hichilema re-elected, 60% plus of the vote—and you feel that familiar twitch of skepticism. It’s a number meant to sound decisive, clean, and final.
By Imani Sutton ·
Clacton-on-Sea's farce proves political rot in Parliament and beyond
You read about it, and you think, "This has got to be satire." But when I look at the reporting—at abcnews.com detailing this special election in Clacton-on-Sea, or reading…
By Josie Calloway ·
Marsha Blackburn: China rhetoric trumps budgetary science in Tennessee
The narrative emerging from Tennessee is less a campaign for competent governance and more a performance designed to channel raw grievance into electoral currency.
By Klaus Berger ·
Senate confirms Jay Clayton as Trump's next intelligence chief
One reads these reports from The Guardian, or even CNBC, and wonders if anyone still remembers what "national security" actually means outside of an annual appropriations bill.
By Caroline Ashford ·