Right on Top
The populist right is transforming from an insurgent to a dominant force in western politics. Its legacy will be highly mixed. It has become almost a cliché over the past few years to talk...
Category: Foreign Affairs
The Storm in Hong Kong
Shielding protesters from pepper spray and tear gas, umbrellas – symbolic of resilience, asymmetry of force, and audacity – has brewed up a political storm, and now the political climate is rougher than ever....
Revolutionary: The Legacy of Fidel Castro
The death of the Cuban revolutionary represents the end of an era, but his impact on the world is much more positive than his mistakes would suggest. With the death of Fidel Castro, the...
Don’t Make Him a Martyr
Accusing Donald Trump of racism or sexism will only bolster his support. If he fails the Electoral College on these grounds, we might never hear the end of it. When compared to other modern...
Et maintenant, Le Pen?
After Donald Trump’s shock victory in the United States, populists are on the march. Can Marine Le Pen replicate his success next year? If 2016 was the year of triumph for the political outsider,...
Make the Economy Fail Again!
In his attempt to make America great again, Donald Trump will not only fail, but damage an already vulnerable world economy. For the last 18 months, Trump has hounded the global political elite for...
Liberalism: Down but not out
Do not expect populists’ post-liberal world order to last. But liberals need to change to win back power; that will be hard while they predict the end of the world. Only an ideologue would...
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Donald Trump’s election victory is the death knell for the founding ideology of the United States. On 9 November 2016, Donald Trump, to the astonishment of virtually everyone (including, most likely, the man himself)...
The Regressive Progressives
America’s left constantly uses rhetoric to portray themselves as more tolerant than their Republican counterparts. Their actions, however, suggest otherwise. The word “tolerance” is abused in today’s political environment and used by liberals to...
Deal or No Deal?
In 2015, President Barack Obama led a global effort to restrict Iran. However, closer inspection reveals that the Iran Deal enables the country to obtain what it wants most: a nuclear weapon. On 14...
Madness in Mosul
The rise of populists and of IS stem from the same root cause: disillusionment with “the system”. That is why the defeat of IS will take so much more than just military force. The...
Sudden Death
After nearly two years of campaigning, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump make their last stand. Casey Kroll analyses both candidates’ chances in becoming the next leader of the free world. America is an...
The Politics of Sexual Assault
The reaction to Donald Trump’s history of intimidating and assaulting women is a reflection on how far we have to go with acknowledging rape culture. When the Access Hollywood recording was released, many men...
Personality Trumps Policy
Totalitarianism has, in our history, been derived from a focus on personality rather than policy. Many current politicians, while not necessarily totalitarian, have shown that we could be throwing ourselves on a dangerous road...
Europe’s Existential Crisis
EU leaders may well try to punish Britain in an attempt to stave off Continental Eurosceptic movements. But doing so will only hasten the EU’s downfall. Since the UK voted to leave the European...
Common Wealth
For too long, Britain has neglected her Commonwealth allies. After Brexit, it’s time to change that. Brexit means Brexit. We, “the 48 per cent”, can mourn as much as we like, but Britain voted...
The Path to Pennsylvania Avenue
With only weeks until election day, Casey Kroll analyses the various ways Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton could win the American presidential election and sit in the Oval Office. It was only a couple...
Trumping Expectations
Donald Trump is behind Hillary Clinton for now, but his populist tide hardly seems to disappear. While this might seem a moody prospect for many a sensible Briton, it could come with its fair...
In Defence of Israel
So often do we see impassioned defences of Palestinians and harsh attacks on their “brutal” oppressors, that we often forget that there is another side to this incredibly controversial conflict. After a judo match...
Crimean Tensions: A Kremlin Concoction?
Russia has a habit of using international sporting events as a distraction for its under-hand foreign policy manoeuvres. Jack Mountford looks at how the Kremlin has used the Rio games as cover for its...
