To Defeat the Far Right, Portugal’s Left Must Learn From Its History
In normal times, a presidential election is a straightforward affair, resulting in one winner and one (or more) losers. The winner gets to be head of state, the losers often drift into public oblivion until, perhaps, More...
Beijing urges Biden administration to learn from Trump’s strategic errors and wrong policies towards China
The Chinese foreign ministry has reiterated its hopes for better relations with the new US administration of Joe Biden, urging the incoming President to learn from Trump’s errors and not to treat Beijing like More...
Keir Starmer is Ignoring the Few Lessons He Could Learn From Joe Biden
Despite the insistence of our political class, Britain and the US have little in common. One is a former settler colony, home to more than 300 million people, with an elected president, a federal system of 50 states, More...
We need to learn from the mistakes of Brexit past
With a Brexit deal seemingly close, the Left must learn from the mistakes of the last four years, argues Kevin Ovenden. Counterfire Daily More...
We should celebrate Trump’s defeat and learn from it
THE population in the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries wanted Donald Trump gone. That includes the population of the United States, which is a source of great rejoicing. Trump was defeated fair More...
Home truths: What we can learn from the ‘Return of Squalor’ in Britain
Not many blogs have dedicated a decade to shining a light onto the root causes of one of society’s deepest socio-economic clefts: housing. But one that has stood the test of time is the Red Brick blog, co-founded More...
What Britain’s left can learn from Biden’s victory
And breathe. Wean yourself off CNN. Go cold turkey on @RealDonaldTrump. And ease back into our own domestic dumpster fire. Save for Trump’s Lionel Hutz litigators succeeding or faithless electors emerging (spoiler More...
What the UK can learn from the US push towards the legalisation of drugs
While the US election may be dominating the headlines, other important votes are happening across America today. State-level votes are taking place in the US on November 4 on a range of related issues, including More...
‘North Korea TV can learn from them’: Netanyahu lashes out at Israeli media over ‘one-sided’ coverage of protests
Israeli media is not reporting on the protests against him, but taking part in them, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said as he launched several attacks on the country’s press, which he insisted was acting “North Korea-style.” The More...
75 years on: What can Keir Starmer learn from Attlee’s victory?
Seventy five years ago on Sunday, Labour won an overall majority of 145 seats. Right now, looking down the barrel of four more years of incompetent and corrupt government, it’s worth remembering the things Clement More...
