Puerto Rico when a foreign power invades and doesnt leave
6 February 2023

Puerto Rico: when a foreign power invades and doesn’t leave

6 February 2023,
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In 1898, US forces invaded Puerto Rico – an island the size of Jamaica – and annexed it from Spain. 125 years later, they […]


9 May 2021

Biden’s Presidency: Challenges facing the US left

9 May 2021,
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Part 2 of an examination of Biden’s first 100 days. A demographic transformation has made the United States a much less cohesive society than […]


29 April 2020

What needs to change after the COVID crisis?

29 April 2020,
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A crisis always prompts soul searching, all the more so when its scale is measured by a daily death toll. The bank crash was […]


Joe Biden 2020
21 May 2019

Biden’s narrative fails the Marks and Spencer test

21 May 2019,
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It doesn’t matter whether you are chocolate pudding or a would-be president, the product has to meet expectations. The Marks and Spencer ‘food porn’ […]


Corbyn Labour
14 March 2019

You can’t have public benefit without spending a penny

14 March 2019,
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It will probably be looked back on as one of the paradoxes of the Corbyn era that, in 2017, a leader who lacked a […]