Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Trump and the neoreactionaries: the geopolitics of implosion
As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, March 17, 2025
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THESE aren’t the changes Bob Dylan was calling for. His was a “get out of the way” message from a generation eager for more optimistic, transformative and inclusive change. There’s no such optimism to be found in today’s upheavals. Meanness and madness occupy the centre stage of global politics.
The bully-boy tactics of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk are creating a trail of destruction and insecurity that is rapidly trashing “the old world order.” Many would argue it needed trashing, but not to make way for something so much worse. This, though, is the world we are faced with and these are the politics that urgently need a-changin’.
In doing so, if there is one core message to be understood, particularly by Britain’s Labour government, it is this: the answer to a playground bully is never to suck up to them, never to go looking for smaller kids to pick on.
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