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Aaron Bastani

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Articles

26 December 2024

Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024

24 September 2024

Starmer’s Conference Speech Was Utterly Vacuous

18 September 2024

The Guardian Is Basically Giving The Observer Away. Here’s Why

If Keir Starmer Wants to Avoid Government Misspending, He Should Pay Local Media to Expose It

Southern England Needs Metro Mayors

The Greens’ Rise Seems Unstoppable. How Are They Doing It?

Nigel Farage Has Spotted a Major Gap in the Political Market

In Starmer’s Labour, Only ‘Zionist Shitlords’ Are Welcome

I Would Have Voted for George Galloway, But Then He Said Gay People Aren’t ‘Normal’

How One Councillor’s Vote Saved Portsmouth Port From Privatisation

The Dune Films Are the Most Important of the 2020s. But Not for the Reasons You Think

Britain’s Future Depends on Its Smaller Cities

2 February 2024

The Internet Didn’t Kill the High Street, Inequality Did

I Just Had a Daughter. But Being a Centrist Dad Never Made Less Sense

21 November 2023

Europe’s Politicians Are Idealists – But About All the Wrong Things

24 October 2023

Why Are Conservatives Supporting Israel’s Strategy When It Would Create Millions More Refugees?

Politicians Don’t Want Power – Because Then They Would Actually Have to Solve Problems

Why Does Every Politician Need a Sob Story?

Keir Starmer’s Position on Austerity Is Almost Identical to the Tories’

The Housing Boom Replaced Social Democracy. Now We Have Neither

Centrist Influencers Are Dying Out

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Creative Workers Too

The Lib Dems Are Britain’s Worst Political Party

Our Elites Are on Autopilot and I Think I Know Why

The US Is Cheating to Stop China Achieving Tech-Supremacy

28 February 2023

The Media is Biased Against the Left – And the Right

13 February 2023

White Collar Workers, Welcome to the Revolution

25 January 2023

Britain’s Media Gatekeepers Are No Match for America’s

13 January 2023

Is This the Most Important Book So Far This Century?

30 December 2022

These Were the Moments That Made 2022

26 December 2022

Socialists, in 2023 Read More Fiction

16 December 2022

Travelling Across Poland Showed Me That Britain’s Economy Is Broken

8 December 2022

No, School Isn’t Making Kids ‘Woke’

8 November 2022

No, Younger People Aren’t Always More Progressive

25 October 2022

Britain’s No-Growth Economy Means Politics Is Only Going to Get More Chaotic

19 October 2022

Europe Is About to Get Very Poor, Very Quickly

I’m a Millennial Homeowner and I Want Property Prices to Fall

23 September 2022

The GMB Is Completely Wrong About Fracking. Here’s Why

20 September 2022

Why Are British Pundits Suddenly So Obsessed with the New York Times?

10 September 2022

Queen Elizabeth Was Synonymous With Modern Britain – It May Unravel Under Her Successor

5 September 2022

Get Ready for Decisive Action From Liz Truss – but Don’t Expect It to Last

Postal Workers Have No Choice But To Strike

The Coming Recession Will Be Worse Than 2008

The Forde Report Proves the Labour Machine Was Rotten to Its Core

Why Aren’t People Having Kids?

Boris Johnson Could Have Been Another Thatcher

The Rail Strikes Are Entirely Justified

In Stroud, Starmer’s Labour is Undermining Local Leaders – Again

Is Animal Agriculture As Bad As Burning Fossil Fuels?

Keir Starmer Doesn’t Trust Ordinary People

Middle Britain is About to Get Monstered By Our Economic Model

Student Loans Are Now Even More of a Scam

Musk Buying Twitter Would Be the Defining Deal of Our Era

How Long Can Faith in ‘Market Solutions’ Survive?

10 February 2022

Older Generations Can’t Deal With the Fact They’ve Had It Easy

4 February 2022

The Guardian Hires Daily Mail ‘Wreathgate’ Journalist Who Claimed Corbyn Paid Tribute to Terrorists

3 February 2022

The Tories Have Lied About Labour Leaders for Years. Why Does the Media Care Now?

27 January 2022

Why is Labour Broke?

25 January 2022

Could This Be the Green Party’s Second MP?

Apparently the World Owes Tony Blair a ‘Debt of Gratitude’. I’ll Pass

13 December 2021

Succession is the Perfect Eulogy for a Dying Republic

18 November 2021

The West Botched Cop26, Then Blamed China

27 October 2021

Is China the World’s Worst Climate Culprit?

Could Labour Lead Wales to Independence?

Leanne Wood: ‘Just Wanting Independence Isn’t Enough. We Need a Strategy’

29 September 2021

Keir Starmer Is Just As Dishonest As Boris Johnson

9 September 2021

An Ageing Society is As Big an Issue As Climate Change

After Afghanistan, We Need a New Kind of Foreign Policy

Are Any Politicians Actually Serious About Climate Change?

Housing Security Transformed My Mental Health

Labour Won Batley and Spen Despite Starmer, Not Because of Him

‘It’s Only the Start’: George Galloway’s Bid for Batley and Spen Could Leave Starmer Staring Into the Abyss

What’s the Point of GB News?

Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of

Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?

Keir Starmer Is Now the Worst Person, at the Worst Moment, to Lead the Labour Party

Do the Police Actually Solve Crime?

What Does the European Super League Furore Tell Us About Modern Capitalism?

Is Britain the World’s Least Racist Country?

The Suez Canal Block Told Us a Lot About Capitalism and Sovereignty

We Already Know Starmer’s Labour Ends in Tears – Just Look at the West of England

Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?

The Biden Administration Just Broke International Law. Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?

26 February 2021

Until He Starts Talking About Rent Caps, Keir Starmer Isn’t Serious About Championing Business

18 February 2021

Why Should the BBC Licence Fee Fund Britain’s ‘Soft Power’?

10 February 2021

Labour Only Has One Route to Power – And It Can’t Take ‘Generation Left’ for Granted

7 February 2021

Covid-19 Has Shown Humanity’s Vulnerability. It’s Time to Take Existential Risks Seriously

27 January 2021

Think the Tories Can’t Possibly Paint Britain’s Pandemic Response As a Triumph? Think Again

22 January 2021

Keir Starmer is Ignoring the Few Lessons He Could Learn From Joe Biden

12 January 2021

No, the United States is Not the Home of Democracy

You Thought Britain’s Media Was Rightwing? By 2024 It Will Be Much, Much Worse

When Will Britain’s Politicians Have the Guts to Take Lessons From Asia?

Downstream

This Much We Agree On: Britain Is in Decline

The British Military Is Actively Involved in Gaza. Here’s How.

We Have to Break up With the USA

Why Don’t We Have Any Hope?

Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong

23 February 2025

Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished

16 February 2025

This Is Why the Right Are Winning

19 January 2025

Who Really Funds the Institute of Economic Affairs?

12 January 2025

Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why

15 December 2024

Germany, Russia and the Death of Europe

1 December 2024

Humans Could Become Immortal This Century

24 November 2024

Trains Are Better Than Cars. Here’s Why

10 November 2024

Is the West Heading for Civilisational Collapse?

3 November 2024

Israel Is Not Interested in Peace

20 October 2024

Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried

The Tories Are Done and They Won’t Be Coming Back

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