Trump may escalate the war against Iran. But decades of US attempts to dominate the Middle East are running up against the growing power of its rivals.

Trump may escalate the war against Iran. But decades of US attempts to dominate the Middle East are running up against the growing power of its rivals.

“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

The Fed chair has more political leverage — and skill — than many feared

The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran

If Andy Burnham dashes the hopes he raised to get into 10 Downing Street, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson will rush to capitalise

If Andy Burnham dashes the hopes he raised to get into 10 Downing Street, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson will rush to capitalise

The financial media and mainstream economists are in a huge tizz.  Government bond yields have risen sharply since the end of the pandemic slump to return to levels not seen since the glo…

There is much speculation about what John Ratcliffe, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was up to when he visited Moscow last week to meet his Russian counterparts. Without doub...

The right are celebrating the fall of Cambridge professor Jason Arday with the glee of a colonial hunting party that has just blasted a lone creature into oblivion. Guns had been out for him as soon a...

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey has already made a huge amount of money, attracted tremendous controversy, and encouraged many people to buy one of the translations of the poem (I’ve bee...

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

Conflicts in Europe and Asia are overlapping and two rival blocs may be forming

The US and Israel were unlikely to defeat Iran by air power alone. But as hostilities re-ignited in the past couple weeks, it's been Iran escalating

Why is Kolakowski so dismissive of Trotsky?

Branko Milanovic, whose writings I enjoy and whom I greatly respect, has written a scathing attack on Trotsky and Trotskyism .

Well, as part of the celebration of my 76th birthday, I went to see Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey today.

Addressing the crises of the system will require a critical analysis and a radical politics that far exceed his rhetoric

He's ramping up his rhetoric again, calling the Iranian leadership 'scum,' threatening devastation and withdrawing economic concessions

In Communion, the vice-president seeks to cast himself as the moral future of Trumpism. But this self-serving exercise exposes the gulf between his faith and the heartlessness of his political project

Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026).

Italian academic and author who challenged traditional approaches with his pursuit of microhistory

It's anyone's guess whether Britain and the EU can count on US support. Why risk fueling a war that could take us close to nuclear brink?

Doctrinal chief in Rome says the European Union applies international law selectively, sanctioning some military invasions but not others.

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

‘La facilité de la vie n’est pas un bien si souhaitable.’

Le 25 juin prochain, Anasse Kazib et un journaliste de Révolution Permanente passeront en procès au Tribunal de Paris, pour leur soutien à la Palestine. Il faut en faire une démonstration de force con...

Greenspan enthusiastically promoted the deregulation that characterized the era of high neoliberalism.