Welcome to the 2026 Edition of Geopolitics for the Severely Concussed. If you’ve been following the news regarding the Strait of Hormuz, you might be feeling a bit of lightheadedness. Don’t worry; that’s just your brain’s natural defence mechanism trying to shut down before it has to process the tactical “genius” currently emanating from the…… Continue reading The “Open-Shut” Case: How to Blockade a Blockade to Un-Blockade a Non-Blockade
Category: Opinion
Square Zero: Anxiety, Geopolitics, and the Weight of Constant Crisis
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
Branding Birmingham: The Audacity of the Demographic Dividend
We are no longer bankrupt. We are no longer apologising. We are the youngest, most diverse, most audacious city in Europe. It is time we started acting like it.
The Caliphate of Croydon: How Britain’s Bourgeoisie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Halal Apocalypse
A dispatch from the frontlines of the Great Replacement, where every suburban cul-de-sac is a potential emirate and white women live in fear of being force-fed baklava It is 6:45 AM on a Tuesday morning in Royal Tunbridge Wells, and Margaret Whitmore-Smythe has not slept. She stands at her bay window, clutching her Yorkshire Tea,…… Continue reading The Caliphate of Croydon: How Britain’s Bourgeoisie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Halal Apocalypse
The Geopolitics of Prayer: When Public Worship Becomes an “Act of Domination”
In the lexicon of contemporary political discourse, certain phrases reveal more about the speaker than the subject. When Nick Timothy, the Conservative Party’s shadow justice secretary, described Muslim prayer in Trafalgar Square as an “act of domination”, he inadvertently exposed the architecture of a deeper pathology. Writing on X regarding the Open Iftar event hosted…… Continue reading The Geopolitics of Prayer: When Public Worship Becomes an “Act of Domination”
Immigration Rhetoric and the Politics of ‘Colonisation’ in Modern Britain
The comments from Sir Jim Ratcliffe in relation to the idea that Britain has been colonised by immigrants need careful unpacking. This is a man who lives in Monaco as a tax exile, avoiding £4 billion in taxation; he is arguably Britain’s seventh-richest man and is a part-owner of Manchester United Football Club. These comments…… Continue reading Immigration Rhetoric and the Politics of ‘Colonisation’ in Modern Britain
What a terrible week it’s been for British politics, and I have my own Peter Mandelson story
Some events have the ability to truly shake up our political landscape in ways that have significant and lingering impacts for years, if not decades, ahead. Many are currently talking about a political scandal of this nature. One is related to a certain Peter Mandelson, who, up until very recently, was appointed as the UK…… Continue reading What a terrible week it’s been for British politics, and I have my own Peter Mandelson story
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 Narcissism of Small Differences
Mark Carney and the Western Anxiety of Being Treated Like the Global South When the “rules-based order” stops serving its architects, suddenly the system is broken, but only for them The Hypocrisy of Carney’s “New World Order”: When Imperial Chickens Come Home to Roost Mark Carney’s recent speech at Davos has sent shockwaves through the Western liberal…… Continue reading The Narcissism of Small Differences
The Recent UK Riots: A Disturbing Analysis
The recent riots in the UK have revealed a disturbing undercurrent in British society that demands our attention. What I find most concerning about these events is not just the violence itself but the broader implications and the failure of many to address the root causes. Media and political experts are noticeably silent on identifying…… Continue reading The Recent UK Riots: A Disturbing Analysis