This parliamentary debate on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's role as trade envoy exposes the deep interpenetration of aristocratic privilege, political power, and capital accumulation in the British state. The allegations—that Jeffrey Epstein attempted to leverage royal connections for personal...
The potential rollback of routine childhood vaccine recommendations represents a stark manifestation of neoliberal governance reaching its logical conclusion: the systematic dismantling of collective public health infrastructure in favor of individualized risk and privatized care. The Advisory...
The confrontation between Martin Lewis and Kemi Badenoch on morning television illuminates deeper contradictions within Britain's debt-financed higher education system—a system that emerged from neoliberal restructuring and now generates crises that even its architects struggle to manage. The...
The UK government's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) reforms reveal a fundamental contradiction between stated goals and material constraints. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson claims these changes would be necessary 'even if money were no object,' yet the reforms are...
This Guardian investigation reveals a fundamental contradiction between the Trump administration's stated justification for mass deportation—targeting 'the worst of the worst' violent criminals—and the material reality: 77% of those entering deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal...
The systematic collapse of federal assault cases against protesters and immigrants reveals a fundamental tension within the capitalist state apparatus: the repressive functions of policing increasingly conflict with the legitimacy requirements of the judicial system. When Department of Homeland...
This Guardian article profiles four individuals suing the Trump administration over various civil liberties violations—medical neglect in immigrant detention, punishment for pro-Palestinian protest, denial of trans identity documents, and threats to religious sanctuary. While framed as individual...
This multi-story update reveals the interconnected machinery of capitalist state power operating simultaneously on domestic and imperial fronts. Trump's 10-15 day ultimatum to Iran, backed by the largest Middle East military buildup since the 2003 Iraq invasion, demonstrates how the threat of...
The inauguration of Trump's 'Board of Peace' represents a crystallization of contradictions within the post-WWII imperial order. What we witness is not simply diplomatic theater but a structural reorganization of how Western capitalism—particularly US capital—exercises dominion over strategic...