Posts By: Grace Blakeley

Economic hardship doesn’t create the far right. But it wins them supporters

Opinion

22.09.2026

It is the fear of loss – not the experience of it – that activates the authoritarian reflex. That sense of decline has become pervasive  In The ...

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AI data centre

We didn’t choose AI. Capital did

Opinion

11.08.2026

The big tech companies have spent $1 trillion on capital investment since the start of the AI boom. Pretty much all that investment has been ...

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Europe heatwave

Europe’s heatwave is political

Opinion

30.06.2026

Across Europe, the toxic combination of extreme weather and inequality is resulting in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths - and politicians ...

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Netanyahu and Trump pose side by side

Trump’s war on Iran is starving the world

Opinion

24.06.2026

Western imperialism has trapped the global South in poverty. Now, US and Israeli aggression has pushed millions into food insecurity – and the ...

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Netanyahu and Trump Iran

Trump and Netanyahu’s Iran war could trigger a new economic crisis

Opinion

10.03.2026

The Iran war could lead to rising food and fuel prices, supply chain shocks, and currency crises. And it's happening just as the shadow banking ...

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Whatever happened to Donald Trump the peacemaker?

Opinion

4.03.2026

Trump’s strike on Iran is just the latest nail in the coffin of his peacemaker persona. But his lurch towards imperial violence doesn’t come ...

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This is what happens when you blame migrants instead of billionaires

Opinion

28.01.2026

The poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the list of 'domestic terrorists' gets longer

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Monopoly capital goes to war

Opinion

13.01.2026

Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is simply the latest battle in a much larger war being waged by capital - centred in the US - on people and planet

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