20% of UK political donations come from just ten men
10.08.2021
Just ten men have made a fifth of all major political donations from individuals in the UK in the past two decades, openDemocracy can reveal.
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Assange is still in jail
28.06.2021
Julian Assange remains in a maximum security jail, despite never being sentenced for anything but a long ago served spell for bail-jumping, and despite the U.S. Government’s request for extradition having been refused.
WHAT WILL BRITAIN’S NEW CYBER FORCE ACTUALLY DO?
27.05.2021
As Jane Austen never quite wrote, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single nation in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a national offensive cyber capability.” Few authors evoke a certain kind of Englishness better than
Britannia Unchanged Post-Brexit
18.05.2021
In 2012, a group of Conservative MPs wrote the now-infamous book, Britannia Unchained, where they claimed to have examined the conditions for Britain to thrive amid increasingly intense global competition.
Violent Conflict Between Loyalists and Republicans Could Make a Comeback in Ireland
20.04.2021
From April 2 (Good Friday) to April 10, there were nonstop violent demonstrations in Northern Ireland, everyday with Irish Catholic nationalists (who want to reunify with the Republic of Ireland) and British-Irish loyalists or unionists (who
A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies
19.04.2021
Last week, MintPress exposed how the supposedly independent investigative collective Bellingcat is, in fact, funded by a CI
Ramadan: Why some UK Muslims stopped following Saudi Arabia's moon sighting
13.04.2021
When Karen Hall became Muslim in 2001, the last thing on her mind was the moon. Having converted to Islam in Nigeria, Hall was eager to begin her journey as a Muslim.
Geopolitics and the British Empire: Halford Mackinder’s Liberal Imperialism
23.03.2021
The disciplinary roots of International Relations are being subject to postcolonial inquiry. One intellectual figure who requires such scrutiny is Halford John Mackinder, a founding father of geopolitics.
The unbearable victim complex of Meghan Markle
10.03.2021
Well that was explosive. Even more than had been expected. In their two-hour sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, Harry and Meghan drove a long knife into the monarchy.
