Tag: Boris Johnson
Quad summit in the US and the futility of Cold War-era rivalry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The US is hosting the forthcoming Quad summit to up the ante against China in South China Sea and Indo-Pacific. But why such Cold War-era rivalry is futile now?
Right-wing populism’s Orwellian tactics
Reading Time: 7 minutes Right wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It is radically re-constituting the uneven field of politics on which ideological battles are fought. Right-wing demagogues use a diversified repertoire of rhetorical tools to not only temporarily acquire dominance but to disaggregate frozen beliefs and re-configure them. To analyse this process of re-constitution, this article uses the vocabulary provided by George Orwell in his seminal book “1984”.
What’s the lesson of the UK general election 2019 for the anti-fascists?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Tory victory in the UK general election 2019 is primarily caused by the Labour Party’s failure to capitalise on the people’s demand for Brexit.
Brexit: Boris Johnson’s newly-bottled rotten deal is devoid of substance
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new Brexit deal marketed by Boris Johnson and the British ruling classes is nothing but Theresa May’s old data with new border norms over North Ireland.