Almost every decision Keir Starmer has made since becoming Labour leader has earned the ire of leftist pundits and politicians. But what if the left itself were to change its approach to him and his [… read more ]
T.J. Coles, postdoctoral researcher at Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute and author of a new book The War On You, reflects on the mobilisation of big data, propaganda and online chicanery in the run-up to November’s [… read more ]
On 24th May, the BBC news website reported that the Science and Technology Facilities Council and its partners were funding the Ecometrica company’s use of drones. Their aim is to use lasers to help scientists [… read more ]
A series of scandals expose the institutional racism of both the Westminster bubble and the London-based mass media. Labour’s alleged anti-Jewish racism is undisputed and condemned without equivocation. But right-wing racism is questioned and debated. [… read more ]
A no-deal Brexit risks a hard border between the UK’s Northern Ireland territory and the sovereign Republic of Ireland (Southern Ireland), which is a member of the European Union. Under the Good Friday Agreement (1998), [… read more ]
TJ Coles of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research and co-author of Union Jackboot examines how and why the majority of politicians on both sides of the left-right political spectrum can so consistently vote for [… read more ]
In a new book, Union Jackboot, Portsmouth University visiting lecturer Matt Alford interviews the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research’s TJ Coles, an oppositional political commentator and author of Britain’s Secret Wars, a critique of modern [… read more ]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is 70 this year. The anniversary went off with a bang, as the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, E. Tendayi Achiume, highlighted what she called the ‘structural racism’ [… read more ]
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