Tag: Nigel Farage

The Meaning of Brexit

By Josh White
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I keep trying to forget about Brexit, but the Leavers won’t let us. Brexiteers are triumphant, though not all of them feel so victorious – despite getting almost everything they wanted. At least the Tories will have to own this failure. (More…)

Brexit Anti-Colonialism

By Joel Schalit
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On 23 June 2016, the country that had ruled over the largest empire in history voted to “take back control”. (More…)

Nazi-Occupied Britain

By Josh White
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On 16 June 2016, Thomas Mair ambushed Labour MP Jo Cox at the library where she held her surgery.  This should have been just another day in her constituency. But it wasn’t. (More…)

Start-Up Populism

By Josh White
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The Brexit Party revolves around London millionaires. Former metals trader Nigel Farage is the face of the party, while Leave.EU founders Richard Tice and Arron Banks keep the campaign flush with cash. (More…)

The Heart of Darkness

By Josh White
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We all love bad guys. We love to watch them rise and fall. But most of all we have a stake in ‘bad guys’ because it means we can play the good guys. (More…)

Crate digging with Pinch.

Nostalgia for a Lost Future

By Charlie Bertsch
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From its opening moments, the new Border Control EP from Bristol dubstep legend Pinch channels the time when that culturally and geographically eccentric city in the western United Kingdom felt like the centre of the universe. (More…)

Everyone loves Brexit. Protest march, London.

UK 1, Johnson 0

By Josh White
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Parliament may have been saved, but the UK is still hurtling towards a cliff edge. The Brexit crisis goes to the heart of what kind of country we want to live in. (More…)

The seeds of Brexit were planted decades ago. Salford, 1971.

Leave to Remain

By Josh White
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Bolsover is a long way from Westminster. It’s an old mining town, mostly white British and ageing, where the factories have closed and the mines have been filled in. This is Labour country, but it’s also Brexit country, too. (More…)

Killed by Fascism

By Joe Keady
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The body of Walter Lübcke, a prominent German regional politician noted for his vocal support for immigration, was found outside his own house late on the night of 2 June with a bullet in his head. (More…)