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Welcome to my blog, a space where I explore the intersections of politics, culture, and radical thought through a Marxist and eco-socialist lens. I write about the ways capitalism shapes our world, how it seeps into art, film, TV, and literature, and what resistance can look like. Through essays, reviews, and analysis, I aim to […]

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Nov 22, 2025 · original
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Rachel Reeves and the 2p Trap
Sep 23, 2025 · original
Rachel Reeves has walked herself into a trap of her own design. She promised not to raise income tax, VAT, NI, or corporation tax. That leaves her fishing down the back of the fiscal sofa for loose change, all while Trump’s tariffs, a sluggish economy, and crumbling public services demand tens of billions. Now the Resolution Foundation offers a conjuring trick: add 2p to income tax, shave 2p off NI, and call it a wash. Except it isn’t. Pensioners, landlords, and those with investment income pay income tax but not NI, so the state nets £6bn. On paper it’s clever. In practice it reeks of the very sophistry voters hate. Labour will be damned either way. Break the pledge outright and Starmer looks like every other politician who promised restraint before soaking the middle. Pretend the NI-to-tax shuffle isn’t a rise and they look slippery and dishonest. Reeves already got burned once, claimi
The Telegraph’s Fantasy Army of the “Workshy”
Sep 20, 2025 · original
The Telegraph insists that 231,000 young men on Universal Credit have been “signed off work for life.” The phrase is calculated to inflame: a generation of idlers, condemned to sponge. But the category is bureaucratic, not eternal—GP fit notes, backlogged assessments, mental health crises. “For life” is a fabrication, a narrative device. The Telegraph gives the game away in its own chart (from the DWP). Right there in the small print: “Active sick note from the doctor but has not yet had a Work Capability Assessment.” That is not “signed off for life.” It is the waiting room of a broken system, where GPs paper over the cracks of collapsing health services and the DWP drags its feet on assessments. To turn a temporary fit note into a lifetime sentence is not journalism, it’s propaganda, designed to paint illness as idleness and manufacture consent for another round of cuts. Why the backlo
Red Herring, Not Red Terror
Sep 19, 2025 · original
David Frost has made a career out of clichés, polishing them up as “historic perspective” and serving them to Telegraph readers as if they were fact. His column on Charlie Kirk’s assassination is no different. He wants us to believe it marks the beginning of a “new Red Terror,” a return of the anarchists and guerrillas of the last century. But what it really shows is projection. Here is a Tory grandee (a man steeped in the apologetics of empire and the cruelties of austerity) trying to pin a culture of political killing on the Left, when the blood runs thickest on the Right. It is an old move, one the British establishment knows by heart: talk darkly of radicals with bombs and barricades, while drawing a discreet curtain over the wars, coups, and crackdowns carried out in the name of order. The sleight of hand is obvious. Frost raids the annals of European anarchism and the 1970s guerril
The Invention of the Narco-Terrorist
Sep 16, 2025 · original
When Donald Trump announced the killing of three men in a Venezuelan boat, he did not call them sailors, smugglers, or even drug traffickers. He called them “narco-terrorists,” and he boasted of ordering a “second kinetic strike.” The phrase fell from his Truth Social post like a bad spell. Three human beings were turned into a category. Their deaths were turned into a procedure. Neither word ( narco-terrorist nor kinetic strike ) has any stable legal meaning, but both serve the same purpose: to erase the people involved and to sanctify the violence done to them. “Kinetic strike” is Pentagon jargon. Kinetic means physical, destructive force (missiles, bombs, bullets) as opposed to “non-kinetic” tools like cyber operations or sanctions. But the technical gloss conceals more than it reveals. “Kinetic strike” sounds clean, scientific, even hygienic compared to the truth: three men in a skif
Beyond Creeping Fascism
Sep 14, 2025 · original
The argument will be made in good faith that 13 September was not fascism. That it was simply “right-wing,” “populist,” or at worst a collection of yobs drunk on lager and grievance. The word “fascist,” we are told, should be reserved for Mussolini’s Blackshirts or Hitler’s stormtroopers, not for a carnival of urine, cocaine and Union Jacks on Whitehall. As Marxists we reject this comfort. Fascism is not defined by vintage uniforms. It is defined by function: a mass movement, rooted in crisis, that fuses nationalism, conspiracy, racism and violence into a political force capable of disciplining society on behalf of capital. By that definition, 13 September was a fascist movement in motion. We are beyond creeping fascism. For years the warning signs were flashing: Robinson on YouTube, Farage on the airwaves, dog-whistles in the press, a nod from ministers to “legitimate concerns.” Creepin
Fight Back or Die? The Far Right in Whitehall and Labour’s Cowardice
Sep 14, 2025 · original
It’s weird being on a night shift as events happen around you, like watching from a different time zone. You wake, scroll, and try to catch up on the analysis that has been pumping out all day. But the question won’t shift: was I correct to say what happened on 13 September should end the illusion that “it can’t happen here”? Are we already at a moment of extreme danger? Has the Labour government, in its passivity and cowardice, played a role in allowing the far right to grow unchallenged? And yes, has the assassination of Charlie Kirk across the Atlantic emboldened these people, giving them a swagger that they had lacked? Because this was not just a mob of pissed-up, coked-up EDL louts cosplaying “the firm.” Or rather—it was, but something more besides. James Ball’s dispatch from the street captured the surface: the urine-slick pavements, the men shouting for cocaine, the Tesco staff ba
Tominey’s doublethink
Sep 12, 2025 · original
The attempt to canonise Charlie Kirk began before his body was even cold. Camilla Tominey drapes him in the robes of free speech , calling him its “defender-in-chief.” It’s an absurd beatification. Kirk wasn’t a Socrates in sneakers, he was a political thug with a podcast. His career built on manufacturing resentment, hounding professors , sneering at trans kids , whipping up militias 1 , and treating universities as occupied territory. Now he is presented as a martyr for dialogue, gunned down for daring to speak. Death as redemption, the oldest trick in the book. Tominey says “words don’t kill, people do,” then blames the Left’s words for killing him. She can’t resist the doublethink. Trump bellows “fight like hell” before January 6th—that’s just rhetoric, nothing to do with the nooses erected outside the Capitol building . A student calls Kirk a Nazi—that’s incitement to murder. The hy
Flatlining Growth, Rising Crisis
Sep 12, 2025 · original
The ONS has spoken: GDP in July was flat. Zero growth. In June it had managed 0.4%. Year-on-year, 1.4%. The Guardian called it “grim news” for Rachel Reeves, as though this were merely another episode of political weather to be endured by the Chancellor. But the real story isn’t July’s flatline. The real story is the long unravelling of British capitalism, a saga now so familiar that the newspapers have had to reduce it to bland bullet points. The Misfiring Engine Read the business pages and you’ll find the same metaphor recycled every month: the economy is a machine, temporarily misfiring. Replace the spark plugs, add a squirt of fiscal oil, and it will roar back into life. This is the great Westminster superstition—that prosperity is always around the corner, waiting for the right technician with the right wrench. Yet what we see is not misfiring but terminal decline. Services limp for
They never want to pay their tax
Sep 9, 2025 · original
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Manchester United’s tycoon investor and Britain’s self-proclaimed chemical king, has taken his £17 billion fortune across the Atlantic . Why? Because Labour dares to tax the super-profits his oil and gas empire has been raking in. He wants us to believe that this is about “certainty” and “stability”, about Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plans, about Britain being hostile to business. In truth, it’s about one thing: he doesn’t want to pay his tax. They never do. We should call this what it is: blackmail by capital. Ratcliffe didn’t build his billions on fresh air. He built them off North Sea reserves, the sweat of workers at Grangemouth, and a Britain whose infrastructure and education system nurtured him. The moment he’s asked to return a fraction of that wealth (to pay for hospitals, schools, pensions, for the society without which his empire could not exist) he turns heel, s

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