Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: Celtic fans urge club to cancel proposed £2m transfer deal with Israeli club
Fans and activists highlight Maccabi Netanya owner’s ties to Israeli military drone firm Read Article HERE
Year: 2026
National Politics
The New Arab – Keir Starmer ‘now more unfavourable than Hamas’ in UK: YouGov poll
The poll found that Hamas, which is a proscribed terror group in the UK, has an unfavourability rating of 63 per cent, while Keir Starmer’s unfavourability rating stood at 74 percent. Read Article HERE
Geopolitics
The Kyiv Indpendent: Kyiv Mayor Klitschko urges residents to ‘temporarily leave city’ as Russia targets critical infrastructure
How many years is “temporarily”? Read Article HERE Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Attribution: rbc.ua
EU politics
Marco Carnelos – With Maduro’s abduction, the ‘rules-based world order’ is officially dead
The globe is once again being carved up into spheres of influence – but this time, European powers are on the sidelines Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – The failure of politics? You can’t fix what you can’t see
Policymakers are far too stuck in their own bubble to properly understand how their policies impact on people. Unless they learn to count what matters to real people rather than corporations, the fraying of democracy […]
Economics
Clare Daly, Mick Wallace – US terrorism hits new depths
8 January 2026 Listen HERE
Economics
Economics
IWH: German corporate insolvencies hit 20-year high
Corporate insolvencies in Germany rose last year to their highest level in two decades, according to data published on Thursday by a leading economic research institute. Read Article HERE
Economics
Ndongo Samba Sylla – A Shameful Anniversary: The CFA Franc at 80
CFA franc was introduced in 1945 as the currency of several African countries. After 80 years, are CFA country leaders willing to confront the political & historical realities that uphold this colonial currency? Read Article […]
Geopolitics
Chris Hedges – Grand Illusion
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.” Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he […]