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  • Reflections on Student Activism

    I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and its allies in Congress and at the Pentagon as they push for a “military-first” foreign policy. I’ve worked at an alphabet soup of think tanks: the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP), the World Policy Institute (WPI), the New America Foundation, the Center for International Policy (CIP),...
  • The Tories are in free fall

    A couple of weeks ago we were told it was Rishi Sunak’s best week ever. Now, it is hard to…What to read next: Elphicke is wrong: the Tories haven’t abandoned the centre ground | Elphicke defection baffles Tories at PMQs | Can Labour or the Tories fix the economy? | Things look bleak for the Tories
  • Fatties for a Free Palestine

    Meet the Fatties for a Free Palestine, a project of Hannah Moushabeck who is, she writes, unapologetically fat and a…What to read next: Elon Musk, free speech hero | Free speech fights back | Tertiary degrees in Intifada | Punishing Petrovsky