The following article is included in my new book, Donald Trump: Deadbeat Tyrant, published 13th January, 2021. A French philosopher once noted of the Roman Empire’s fall: If the chance of one battle — that is, a particular cause — has brought a state to ruin, some general cause made…

Karl Marx once wrote something along the lines of “history repeats itself: first as tragedy, second as farce”. Sometimes, however, this sequence finds itself reversed. We can in fact point to such an occasion today. Let’s begin with the farce. In March 2021 a container ship called the Ever Given…

The town of Oberndorf in Austria recently experienced a temperature of 36.1°C. Not that unusual for the summer, of course. Yet the fact that this temperature was recorded at midnight surely makes it yet another record breaker for our rapidly changing climate. It is not the only record to have…

Nobody likes bad weather. However, if you happened to be a tomato plant you would find it particularly inconvenient. When temperatures drop too low you would be unable to produce fruit, which as far as I’m concerned is the whole point of your existence. …

On 17th November, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced some long-expected bad news for the country. In order to fill a supposed £50 billion hole in the government’s finances, Hunt pledged a raft of tax rises and spending cuts. While the Chancellor promised that health and education…

2022 is a year that will undoubtedly be remembered as one in which the price of almost everything rose quite rapidly. Across much of the world, the rate of inflation has reached forty year highs and shows no sign of abating. The main cause of the rapidly rising prices has…

Like a posse of deranged clowns stubbornly clinging to some lead balloons in the Mariana trench, the Conservative Party remains ever committed to its unrelenting quest to hit rock bottom. …

Liz Truss is Britain’s new Prime Minister and while there is an air of unpredictability about how she intends to govern, it appears probable that her government could very well be facing increased industrial conflict and perhaps even the outbreak of social unrest. Truss has signaled her intention to tear…

The United Kingdom — via the malignant core at the heart of its body politic, the Conservative Party — is once more engaged in a contest to pick the latest in a long line of hapless and/or heartless leaders. The decision as to who will be the UK's next Prime…