It's odd to think: after two world wars, an archipelago of death camps, slaughter of Jews, Roma, gays and disabled, what we really need is a re-armed, reunited Germany.
And yet...
The scale of Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
To read them all now, check out @lawfaremedia.org:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I'm shocked and so deeply saddened that my colleague and friend, Ran Hirschl, passed away. A towering figure in law and politics, he was so supportive of junior faculty like me, and had so much intellectual firepower to go. I'll miss him so much 😢 www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...
The most corrupt president in history:
“Rayner endured months of scrutiny over her living and tax arrangements. But when it emerged that Farage’s partner had bought an £885k house for cash, much of Fleet Street ignored it,” writes Alan Rusbridger
IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today!
These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable.
Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Brendan Nyhan
New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog, reviewing @sarahobolt.bsky.social & James Tilley's new book "Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain":
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... (this is an additional post to the normal fortnightly posts, which continue as usual next week)
Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
Michael E. Kanell
www.politics.utoronto.ca
The British media is obsessed with Zack Polanski, but raises barely a squeak over huge donations to Reform
Post-war era officially over.
www.ft.com/content/c1ba...
Tommaso Pavone
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website.
Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that.
And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.
Chris Grey
The Guardian
Daniel Trilling
Trump is a problem for Farage. But given around a quarter of Britons still want him as PM, clearly not an insurmountable one.
This piece tried to understand why - despite Trump and the failure that is Brexit - he still appeals to a significant minority of voters.
open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...
A defence strategy sets the right direction for dealing with the Russian threat
The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.
Now Trump’s war on Iran has descended into catastrophic farce, the Reform leader is trying to distance himself from the demented man in the White House. That won’t be so easy
