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Progress Report: Starmer’s Government is Failing
Keir Starmer’s government has been disappointing. From decimating the foreign aid budget, to controversy over the winter fuel allowance,...
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Court or Cabinet? How Trump and Musk Mirrored a Monarch and his Favourite
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are perhaps the most consequential figures of our time. Given the recent ‘break up’ between the former head of...
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The American Pope: An Infallible Opposition to Trump?
The world seemed to still as the white smoke poured out of the chimney – only the seagulls moved. A brief moment of realisation, before...
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What is Logic? A Nonsensical Approach.
‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.’ So says Alice, or rather Lewis Carroll through her, before tumbling down the...
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Unelected, Unlikely, and Unbeatable? How Mark Carney Gave Canada’s Liberals a Fighting Chance Against Annihilation
Justin Trudeau left office unpopular, uninspiring, and unhelpful to the Liberal’s chances of retaining their slim control over the...
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Lobsters in Art: Natalia Goncharova and Neopromitivism
Nathalia Goncharova (1881 – 1962), Nature morte au homard, 1909 – 1910, 73 x 88,1 cm, Centre Pompidou Dear Crustaceans, It is with great...
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Chaos In, Incumbents Out: Taking the Temperature of 2025
When 2025 rolled around, and we started considering what went wrong in 2024, we may have decided to make an ‘ins and outs’ list for the...
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Starmer’s Short Fuse: Why Britain’s PM Risks Losing the Plot
Britain’s new Prime Minister has a real image problem. In just five months Keir Starmer’s approval rating has plummeted to -38, a...
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Dead Law and Perishable Nations: Why Constitutions Beckon Revolutions
Germany is an invented state. Or rather, Germany Mark X (patent 1990) is an invented state. It was invented to replace Germany Mark IX...
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Let’s Play the Blame Game - It Doesn’t Look Good for Democrats
Recent events have left Democrats around the US playing the all too familiar blame game - we see this with every election, grasping at...
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Language Barriers on the Pont des Arts: Aya Nakamura vs. the Académie Française
My first article as a lobsterman (also known as a harvester) was pessimistically named ‘The Impending Fiasco of the Paris Olympics’. A...
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Lobsters in Art: the Anglophilia of Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix, Nature morte au homard et trophées de chasse et de pêche, Salon of 1827, 80 x 106 cm, Louvre Dear crustaceans, This...
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Making Opera Happen: the Perilous World of Keeping Britain’s Classical Music Alive
I.               The coronavirus pandemic may have forced virtually all aspects of life to wilt, but there can be no doubt that it...
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Bats, Ball(room)s, Beethoven, and Byriani: The diary of an English cricketer on the Rhine
Foreword, 25.10.2024 May the 9th 2024, The Upper Mound Stand, Lord’s  “This is my son William; he opens the bowling for the Authentics...
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Starmer Could’ve Led in Europe - Thanks Brexit
Our newly elected Labour government continues to be a tale of two feelings - happiness in what we have, and sadness in what could have...
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Addiction Generation: How long can social media last?
Joe Biden has had a tough few weeks, so it feels only fair to give a little attention to his strengths – although we do acknowledge that...
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The Decay of Potential in Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night
The seed of tragedy is sown upon one’s decision to be great. The declaration, so often made in youth, seems to correlate, if not causate,...
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Starmer Failed MPs on Gaza - How Does He Rectify This?
The Labour election campaign was pretty perfect. From day one, the Conservatives fumbled from one disaster to another - rain on arrival,...
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Domestic Terrorism or Federal Conspiracy?
How the media is helping frame Donald Trump as a stone-cold survivor. Back in 2020, while serving as President, Donald Trump contracted...
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The Bear’s Third Course is still essential viewing, and that’s Non-Negotiable.
Spoiler Warning: ‘The Bear’ Christopher Storer’s masterpiece, The Bear, has released its most anticipated third season, but the ten...
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