an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

On the contrary, he has indicated that because the central bank’s quantitative easing policies mean that it is in effect ...

Rather than a lesson in how to beat the right, this seems likely to prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the centre. Read on: ...

Everybody has heard by now that British higher education is in a parlous state. Indebted students. Overworked staff on squeezed pay. Misery all round. The question is who is responsible. Some ...

What is the problem described today by feminism? A decade ago, a generation of women – now in our late twenties and early thirties – claimed it as a primary political identity, but no longer. Among ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman does not mince his words: the signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something ...

We seem to have entered a period of war without end, extending across the globe and unsettling even the central nodes of the world system. Each contemporary conflict has its own genealogy and stakes, ...

How to relate to the Leninist tradition? How to extract its truth? The basis of Lenin’s success was the perfect adaptation of his political strategy to the historical terrain of late Tsarist Russia, ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

Late capitalism is an ambiguous term. Lateness may imply death or an ending, as when we speak of my late grandfather or the late afternoon. When the German social theorist Werner Sombart first used ...