Extreme Inequality Created the World Jeffrey Epstein Exploited
The Epstein revelations are symptoms of a deeper crisis: a political economy that rewards extraction over creation and concentrates power in ever fewer hands.
Politics
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Europe’s Centre-Left Chose Caution Over Conviction and Now Faces Collapse
Bold choices, not better messaging, are the only way to save Europe's centre-left from electoral extinction.
International Law’s Crisis of Faith: Double Standards from North to South
From Venezuela to Gaza, the selective application of international law by powerful states and their critics alike is draining the post-1945 order of its last reserves of legitimacy.
Spain and Norway Expose the Bankruptcy of Europe’s Iran Response
Europe's response to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran exposes a continent locked in dependency and struggling to find its voice.
Pensions, Housing, Jobs: One Fund to Fix Them All
A compulsory second-tier pension fund invested exclusively in social housing would tame rents, boost employment, and deliver stable retirement income.
Populism’s Real Target in Europe Is Not the Elite — It Is the Worker
Populist leaders promise to empower “the people” but systematically sideline the institutions through which workers actually exercise power.
The Iran War Has Nothing to Do with Nuclear Weapons
The assault on Iran defies every stated justification; the real motives point to democratic backsliding and personal enrichment.
Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation
The US–Israeli strikes on Iran lay bare every fault line in Europe's energy dependence, industrial fragility, and strategic exposure — and demand an immediate policy response.
European Sovereignty Demands a Social Foundation, Not a US Blueprint
A 'Draghi light' agenda of deregulation risks social repression — but a bolder path rooted in Europe's social democratic tradition offers a credible alternative.
Disorientation Is the Point: How Permanent Unpredictability Broke Democratic Politics
Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.
The War on Iran Has Begun — Here Are Ten Issues That Will Shape What Comes Next
The American-Israeli assault has decapitated Iran's regime, but the cascade of geopolitical consequences threatens to destabilise the entire global order.
Aid Is Not Development: We Need a Different Conversation
Despite trillions spent over decades, more people than ever face starvation—because aid was never designed to end poverty.
Trump The Rebel King
Donald Trump has taken the exercise of power to its most absurd extreme. He rules a state that he seeks to destroy.
How Orbán’s Fidesz Instrumentalises Hungary’s Roma as an Electoral Prop
A senior minister's vulgar remark about Roma "cleaning train toilets" was no gaffe — it was a campaign programme in miniature.
Why a Club of Six Nations Is Both Europe’s Best Hope and Its Greatest Risk
A German proposal to unite the EU's six largest countries confronts a Union paralysed by the dominance of its smallest members.