I am in one of those really weird moments when one suddenly thinks it’s all going to go really bad, but actually, how much worse can it get? A bit of good political news I’ve heard today is that Hungary is about to elect a centre-right prime minister, shifting the current landscape dominated by Viktor…… Continue reading Square Zero: Anxiety, Geopolitics, and the Weight of Constant Crisis
Category: Analysis
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud (So I Don’t Have To): An Establishment General’s Verdict on the Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPt47bhsVy8 I am writing today simply to summarize and amplify the astonishing, unvarnished insights of a man who possesses the kind of unimpeachable establishment credentials that I do not. Major General Charlie Herbert is not a brown Muslim activist. He is a retired senior officer who spent 34 years in the British Army, rising from…… Continue reading Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud (So I Don’t Have To): An Establishment General’s Verdict on the Middle East
The “Muslim Threat” Video: How Numbers Lie
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VatuEcSKn4U You’ve probably seen the video or presentation slides. Confident framing, a stark green background declaring “Official UK Government data”, and a simple, dangerous message: Muslims are a burden and a threat. It feels convincing because it borrows the credibility of the Office for National Statistics. But here’s how the presentation actually manipulates you. The…… Continue reading The “Muslim Threat” Video: How Numbers Lie
The Racialisation of the Ballot: Why Muslim Political Power is Pathologised in Multicultural Britain
The Green Party’s historic victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election on 26 February 2026, represents one of the most dramatic and structurally significant electoral realignments in recent British political history. In capturing approximately 40% of the electorate and overturning a massive Labour majority of over 13,400 votes, 34-year-old local plumber and councillor Hannah Spencer…… Continue reading The Racialisation of the Ballot: Why Muslim Political Power is Pathologised in Multicultural Britain
Manufactured Collapse: From the Iraq Dossier to the Iran Strikes
This morning’s events, Israel’s coordinated strikes on Tehran followed by Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States has commenced “major combat operations” against Iran, represent a calculated escalation that is as lawless as it is historically predictable. The parallels with the Iraq catastrophe of 2003 are not merely rhetorical; they are structurally identical. Then, as…… Continue reading Manufactured Collapse: From the Iraq Dossier to the Iran Strikes
The Gorton and Denton By-Election: A Laboratory of Post-Labour Politics
The Gorton and Denton by-election has transcended the typical local skirmish to become a high-stakes referendum on the soul of British politics. As voters prepare to head to the polls on 26 February, the constituency has transformed into a laboratory where three distinct political eras are colliding: the entrenched localism of the Greens, the transatlantic…… Continue reading The Gorton and Denton By-Election: A Laboratory of Post-Labour Politics
Beyond the Neighborhood: 5 Surprising Truths About Islamophobia in Modern Britain
In the wake of the 2024 Southport riots and a 2025 political climate defined by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s warnings of social fragmentation, a convenient but lazy narrative has taken hold: the idea that multiculturalism has “failed” because of where we live. Political leaders routinely point to segregated neighborhoods and “parallel lives” as the engine…… Continue reading Beyond the Neighborhood: 5 Surprising Truths About Islamophobia in Modern Britain
The Granite Mask
Biological Stasis and the Eternal Recurrence of Domination in the Anthropocene On the impossibility of transcendence and the 21st-century perfection of the extractive machine Introduction: The Unchanged Animal The human genome contains a secret that twenty-first-century optimism refuses to acknowledge: we are, biologically, the same creature that emerged from the East African savannah approximately 300,000…… Continue reading The Granite Mask
The Iran I’ve Always Wanted to Visit – and the One That Exists Today
Iran has fascinated me for as long as I can remember thinking about civilisation and culture. It is one of the cradles of civilisation, the home of ancient Babylonians and Persians who fought the Romans and Greeks and created the basis of modern-day civilisations. Their culture, science, art, philosophy, and literature remain as rich and…… Continue reading The Iran I’ve Always Wanted to Visit – and the One That Exists Today
Five Reasons People Distrust the Government
(Hint: It’s Not Just About Money) Introduction: The Widening Chasm of Trust It’s a feeling that’s hard to escape: political trust is at an all-time low and society feels more fragmented than ever. We often assume that when people lose faith in their government, it’s because their wallets are lighter and the economy is struggling.…… Continue reading Five Reasons People Distrust the Government