Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...

Of the 650 MPs in the British parliament, one inevitably boasts the smallest majority in the country. In July 2024, this dubious honour was bestowed upon Labour MP David Pinto-Duschinsky, who won the ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here For Israeli progressives, the spectacle of the Trump ...

On 20th December 2024, six people were killed and 299 injured when a car was driven into crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The modus ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech on 10th December ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here Nothing is horrible enough for us anymore. Nothing ...

As the UK government prepares to launch a new Child Poverty Strategy in 2025, this event will examine the country’s record on child poverty over the last 15 years, the impact of the Child Poverty Act ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here I have taken to calling people up to ask them how they ...

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

The Trump regime’s first month was designed to disempower all of us. The shock and awe of permanent provocation was intended to make citizens and leaders alike forget that we too make history, we too ...

Maurice Glasman, Blue Labour (2022) and William Morris, News From Nowhere (1890). There was once a seminar, at the Labour party stronghold of University College, Oxford (Beveridge, Attlee and Wilson ...

It is time to catch up with the Rev Calvin Robinson. You remember him? The controversial priest with his own show on GB News who then got “cancelled”…? In fact, the story was a little more complicated ...