Are you saying we actually have no free speech anymore? |...
In this weekend’s long read, Steven Gormley examines the issue of free speech as it applies to speech acts which are offensive to religious...
Demonising populism won’t work – Europe needs a progressive populist alternative...
How should Europe react to the rise of populist parties? Chantal Mouffe argues that the consensus established between centre-right and centre-left parties on the...
Peter Bloom | We live in a populist age – but...
This weekend the New Pretender takes great pleasure in republishing the following intervention by Peter Bloom from our partners Brave New Europe. Bloom notes the loose...
Tax Evader, Banker, Grenfell Tower: Sajid Javid is a good man.
Did you like Amber Rudd? Then you will love Sajid Javid, our new Home Secretary.
Sajid is a very pleasant character, who devoted all his...
Doom Watch Cancelled: a comment on the Swedish 2018 Election and...
In this weekends long-read Per Rolandsson offers an analysis of the recent Swedish Elections. To such an end, Rolandsson's analysis grapples with the figure of the...
“The Centre Cannot Hold”: Reflections on the Irish Presidential Election |...
In this article Gary Hussey turns his eye to the recent Irish Presidential Elections which not only saw the return to the Aras the...
Black Lives Matter, Covid-19 and the Scene of Politics | Hasret...
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will” – Frederick Douglass
“I feel that if we don’t take seriously the ways...
The anti-populist effect of the progressive Left – a real concern...
In this weeks long read, Alice Masoni contributes to the New Pretenders analysis of anti-populism. Masoni writes about anti-populist rhetoric and its capacity to reproduce the...
Bright Flight
Per Rolandsson discusses why Scandinavian culture has become so popular among the liberal middle-classes. Is it fascism, racism, or escapism?
Escaping the reality of today’s...
Repeal the 8th – Women’s Bodies, Anti-Colonial Struggle and a...
In this weeks special report / long-read article Hasret Cetinkaya writes about the Repeal the 8th campaign in Ireland, seeking to amend the Irish...