Europinion
LightNews LightNews
banner
europinion.bsky.social
Europinion
@europinion.bsky.social
11 followers 0 following 96 posts
Independent voices | Daily opinions, analysis | Media literacy and policy advocacy | For open, honest discourse
Posts Replies Media Videos
europinion.bsky.social
Trump’s Board of Peace having met this week, Jake Crapper contends it is now impossible to avoid direct parallels to those leaders of last century who similarly sold war as peace.

#Trump #Geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #BoardofPeace #UnitedNations
Bored of Peace: Axis Powers for a Globalised Age
Where Donald Trump’s first tenure as President of the United States was concerned with making America great again, it is quickly becoming apparent he has broadened his horizons with his second innings...
www.europinion.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 AM
europinion.bsky.social
South Africa’s colonial amnesia is facilitating another gender apartheid, argues Lucy Tappin.

#Gender #SouthAfrica #ANC #Ramaphosa #Apartheid #Femicide
Gender Apartheid is Thriving on South Africa’s Amnesia
To describe something as a ‘crisis’ is to deem it an urgent issue. Whilst a range of dictionaries provide various definitions, they all hinge on a notion of temporality and immediacy. Many allude to a...
www.europinion.uk
January 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
europinion.bsky.social
ICE is mightily popular in Westminster, if Badenoch’s British ICE proposals, and Mahmood’s Panopticon delusions, are anything to go by. So when and how are these brave 'new brownshirts' coming to Britain?

europinion.uk/post/ice-in-...

#ICE #UK #Politics #Immigration #BorderSecurity
ICE in the UK - Inheriting the Dystopia
In light of the public murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the death of four detainees in ICE custody so far this year, US citizens are protestin...
europinion.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
europinion.bsky.social
Unburdened by its vermin - with more and more craven defectors fleeing a sinking ship - the Tories have a golden opportunity to pursue sane and genuine conservatism, argues Jasper Goddard.

#Tories #ReformUK #Jenrick #Braverman #Farage #UnitedKingdom #Politics
Jenrick & Co's Expulsions Are A Golden Opportunity
Earlier this month, Robert Jenrick was abruptly sacked by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch after screenshots of the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice’s resignation speech were sent to senior figu...
www.europinion.uk
January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Sabre-rattling a superpower is justified if it sparks a national self-confidence not seen in decades, argues Nikita Triandafillidis in this spirited defence of Sanae Takaichi’s populist foreign policy.

#Takaichi #Japan #Politics #Geopolitics #China
The New Rising Sun: The Ongoing Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Crisis
It seems that the era of repetitive politics is over in Japan. Since her inauguration as the first female Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi has set a new path for Japan’s foreign policy. Her fir...
www.europinion.uk
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 AM
europinion.bsky.social
Gorton & Denton will be Starmerism’s grave, argues Will Allen in this patient vivisection of Labour’s decision to cripple its most popular and politically potent player.

#Starmer #Streeting #Burnham #Rayner #Labour #Politics #UKPolitics
Gorton & Denton Is Where Starmer’s Premiership Will Go To Die
Over the weekend, Keir Starmer had to once again confront a problem in the shape of Andy Burnham. The issue was not really a new one for Starmer. In fact, by this point, talk of Andy Burnham angling f...
www.europinion.uk
January 26, 2026 at 3:16 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Selene Lopez draws on Nietzsche and Weber to detail, through the prism of unilateral American action contra Maduro, the seduction and spread of the very corrosive weapons of autocracy liberal democracy was supposedly anathema to.

#UnitedStates #Politics #Trump #MAGA #America #Democracy
Power First, Democracy Later: The Uncomfortable Lessons from Venezuela
“When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you” is a line from Nietzsche, who warned that “whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster.” I recall ...
www.europinion.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:05 AM
europinion.bsky.social
Emrah Roni Mira exhaustively elucidates the Maduro debacle via a triptych of perspectives: the modern Monroe Doctrine, global energy chess game, and boundary problems of international jurisdiction.

#Venezuela #Maduro #Trump #Geopolitics #UnitedStates
Global Geopolitical Fracture: The Maduro Operation
Relations between the USA and Venezuela experienced one of the most shocking fractures in modern diplomatic history this January when President Maduro was captured by US special forces and taken to Ne...
www.europinion.uk
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Libyan ‘El Hishri’ is now on trial for crimes against humanity committed under the auspices of a since renewed Italy-Libya deal, an irony betraying Europe’s Janus-faced asylum policy, says Eddie Monkman.

www.europinion.uk/post/the-eu-...

#Libya #ICC #HumanRights #Asylum #Italy #ElHishri
The EU-Libya MoU Is A Duplicitous Cover For Crimes Against Humanity
On December 1st 2025 Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, commonly known as ‘El Hishri’, was surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is to face trial for war crimes and crimes against human...
www.europinion.uk
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
europinion.bsky.social
The BBC has become a lightning rod in a widening populist assault on Britain’s institutions, forcing a choice between defending imperfect but vital institutions or conceding to rhetoric that thrives on mistrust.

www.europinion.uk/post/who-s-a...

#BBC #Politics #Populism #UnitedKingdom
Who’s Really Afraid of the BBC? Is the BBC Impartial?
The BBC has increasingly found itself under fire over the last few years, with right-wing media and politicians alike finding every possible opportunity to lambast the public-service broadcaster for p...
www.europinion.uk
January 22, 2026 at 9:27 AM
europinion.bsky.social
A boon of agricultural staples has saddled American farmers with depressed prices and the Trump administration with an unenviable choice - argues Charles Cann.

www.europinion.uk/post/the-pai...

#Agriculture #Policy #Farming #Trump #MAGA #Food
The Painful Politics Of Agricultural Surpluses
Only a select few would claim agricultural surpluses are a sexy topic. But in this arena the seeds have been sown for a potential backlash against the current US administration, as recently decimated ...
www.europinion.uk
January 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM
europinion.bsky.social
Atatürk's hollowed out legacy, maintained as a mirage by an increasingly 'Islamist' Erdogan, reduces, contends Lucy Tappin, an icon of secular progress to a deified veneer for conservatism.

www.europinion.uk/post/underst...

#Türkiye #Politics #Atatürk #Secularism #Conservatism #Erdogan
Understanding Atatürk’s Legacy Under Erdoğan
It was dusk by the time I pulled out of Hasankale station and continued my journey eastward, chasing the evening sun over the Anatolian plains. The family I had shared a cabin and spinach börek with f...
www.europinion.uk
January 18, 2026 at 12:35 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Rutte’s resolute inertia in the face of the Western world order’s Death by Trump amounts to appeasing whilst Rome burns, argues Katie Bevan in this firecracker of a call to arms.

www.europinion.uk/post/rutte-i...

#NATO #UnitedStates #Trump #Greenland #West #Geopolitics #Military
Rutte Is Too Calm Before The Storm
Churchill may or may not have said – it’s an aphorism with cloudy provenance – that “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” NATO’s Se...
www.europinion.uk
January 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
europinion.bsky.social
“Country first, party second” has seen Starmer alienate his MPs and wreck his prospects of reforming Britain, argues Will Allen in this impassioned plea for a Labour Party which puts itself first.

www.europinion.uk/post/keir-st...

#Labour #UnitedKingdom #UKPolitics #Starmer #KierStarmer
Keir Starmer Should Put Party First, Country Second
In politics, particularly within the UK, our politicians, and those commentating on them, like to talk about putting ‘country before party’. Keir Starmer is no exception to this rule. In fact, the Pri...
www.europinion.uk
January 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Cinemas proffer a unique phenomenology of resistance contra an atomising modernity, argues Tom Lowe in this love letter to cinemas as deeply personal third spaces.

www.europinion.uk/post/cinema-...

#Cinema #Culture #Arts #Society #Opinions #OpEd
Cinema: A Case For The Third Space
I first became a cinephile at a time when going to the movies was impossible. Like many other people, I kept myself busy during the COVID-19 pandemic by indulging in the best, and worst, movies that s...
www.europinion.uk
January 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Pathetic MAGA mimicry has seen Britain’s right come to hate it, argues Tom Watkins in revealing such self-sabotage as fostered by Washington, and as taking on a life of its own.

www.europinion.uk/post/the-pol...

#UnitedKingdom #UKPolitics #USPolitics #MAGA #Trump #Farage #ReformUK
The Politics of Self-Sabotage on the British Right
The New York Times published one of the finest long-form features in recent memory last week. The piece was a thorough chronicling of the US-Ukraine relationship and its evolution over the past 12 act...
www.europinion.uk
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
europinion.bsky.social
“The chickens come home to roost.” As Malcom X said of JFK’s death, so says Pritish Das of Trumpian domestic fascism in this masterful polemic against American imperialism from Kabul to Caracas.

www.europinion.uk/post/coming-...

#Trump #Venezuela #Iraq #USPolitics #MAGA #Geopolitics
Coming Home to Roost - Venezuela, Colonial Boomerangs, and Liberal Revisionism
When asked about his thoughts on JFK’s assassination, Malcolm X responded with the phrase “the chickens come home to roost.” Malcolm, writing during America’s imperialist scramble over the newly decol...
www.europinion.uk
January 11, 2026 at 10:21 AM
europinion.bsky.social
Charlie Cann roots Washington's Venezuela foray in a history of its arrogant unilateralism, concluding that little has changed or can change for the pawns in Uncle Sam’s Latin America.

#Venezuela #Maduro #USA #DonaldTrump #Donroe #LatinAmerica #Geopolitics
The New American Gunboat Diplomacy: Will This Century Be Any Different?
This Trump administration’s recent Latin American chevauchées are old school. But the world has moved on since Monroe, and regional actors may well respond in more modern manners to the egregious trea...
www.europinion.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Viktor Schlatte explores the Kremlin’s inescapably suicidal refusal to accept ever-sweeter ceasefires, outlining the sorry state of an economy which will give out long before Putin’s ego.

#Ukraine #Russia #Economics #Donbas #Economy #Putin
Russian Lives Are Dearer To Its Treasury Than To The Kremlin
From a distance it is hard to see why Vladimir Putin did not accept December’s peace plan for the Ukraine war, to prevent it entering its fourth year. The deal would have forced Ukraine to secede far ...
www.europinion.uk
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
europinion.bsky.social
The imperialist consent-manufacturing machine - malcoordinated though Mar-a-Lago’s is - has leapt into action along precisely the protocols developed for the Iraq War, argues Gemma Gradwell.

#MAGA #Trump #Imperialism #Venezuela #Cuba #Colombia #Iraq
Manufacturing Consent: Resurrecting the Iraq Playbook in Venezuela
A few weeks before Christmas, I quietly wrote a piece for a student publication exploring Trump’s continuation of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine through his rampant interventions in America’s so-called back...
www.europinion.uk
January 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
europinion.bsky.social
The Balkans have been stuck between a Tsarist Kremlin and an expansionist eagle (Austria-Hungary then, oddly Tsarist America now) for more than a century - Zach Rogers explains.

#Balkans #Russia #Geopolitics #Politics
A New Balkan War: Regional Struggle and Antidemocratic Elements Abroad
The Balkan Legacy Winston Churchill supposedly posited that the Balkans produced far too much history for it to be accurately consumed, largely echoing the typical “orientalism” rhetoric that Edward S...
www.europinion.uk
January 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Charles Cann critiques inter alia the corrosive crutch that consultancy has become in this masterful survey of how Britain might get a grip on its productivity problem.

#Economics #Management #Productivity #Economy #UnitedKingdom
Britain's Productivity Woes Lie In Its Habitually Inefficient Management
Economic woes, largely originating in our productivity problem, underscore much British political discourse today. The productivity problem boils down to the notion that the amount of additional value...
www.europinion.uk
January 5, 2026 at 2:14 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Cody Forster draws on Panievsky’s The New Censorship to problematise journalism today, urging us not to reify its demise nor pine for old Fleet Street, rendered dear by distance but odious in its own way.

#Journalism #Censorship #Freedom #Democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress
A New Journalism For A Populist Age
As 2026 commences, how ready is the world of journalism for the next quarter century of the 21st century?With social media gaining traction in the 2010’s, it’s safe to say the online world has well an...
www.europinion.uk
January 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM
europinion.bsky.social
The SNP prefer “rhetorical radicalism to meaningful reform” as part of maintaining a sorry status quo so as to blame Westminster for each and every ill, argues Frederick Graham.

www.europinion.uk/post/the-snp...

#Scotland #UnitedKingdom #SNP #UKPolitics #Politics
The SNP and the Stagnation of Scottish Politics
Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary elections, Frederick Graham examines eighteen years of Scottish Nationalist rule and the state of Scottish politics. In Westminster and Europe, recent election...
www.europinion.uk
January 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
europinion.bsky.social
Gradualist reforms and a deceptively frail majority have left Starmer needing long-termist policy and quick wins on the politics side - a deleterious and insoluble conundrum.

#Starmer #Labour #Politics #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom
The Starmer Project Ended Before It Began
The Starmer project was supposed to last a decade, it might not make it to the spring. Despite having one of the largest majorities in parliamentary history, the political project Starmer leads is so ...
www.europinion.uk
January 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM