How the virus exposes the disintegration of our societies. — Finally, there’s a vaccine. What a relief — my routine-filled everyday life can resume its normal linear predictability amidst an ever-escalating social crisis, a widening rift between rich and poor, astonishing levels of distrust in public institutions and the strangulation of our atmosphere. I’d almost forgotten the old ‘normal’. But…

Why D10S was more than just a football player Diego Armando Maradona was an icon in many ways. Of course, he was a footballer. Possibly the greatest of all time. Immortalized through his goals, his dribbles, his left foot and the 1986 World Cup. But Maradona was more than that.

How a return to ‘normality’ is no longer on the cards. — How many people have told you to remain positive and see 2020 as something of a turning point? That the lock-down really is a good thing. That we are the virus? Well, how many? Numerous of my liberal friends have clutched this straw, pointing out how pollution has dropped and…

How the virus exposes the rot at the base. — CoVid19 is rapidly changing the world we grew up in. In the West, millions are starting to realize that their realities are not insulated from existential threats, a truth that people in the Global South were forced to accept long ago. It is certain that the collapse we are witnessing…

How the rise of racism, violence and death are an ‘acceptable’ price to pay in the Europe’s delusional fight against migration. — This article contains extracts from the author’s book DISPLACED. EUROPE AND THE GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS. It has become commonplace to criticize Donald Trump and his delusional border wall. …

Are we witnessing a revolution in American politics? — So apparently socialism is back, embodied by Bernie, endorsed by Dr. Cornel West and millions of American youngsters, who have managed to pierce through the mountains of misinformation and deceit spouted by the bizarre phenomenon which is FOX ‘news’, for whom ‘socialism’ represents all that is evil and ‘un-American,’ a…

Featuring confused elites and angry masses. — Brexit-day — bloated emptiness presented as something real. The suggestion of Brexit has replaced the actual sentiment which produced it and the alienation felt by so many Brits has been hijacked by the personified privilege of frat-boy Boris, who would sell his own mother for a few minutes in the…

The onslaught of the Kurds is another phase in the dismantling of Syria. — As Turkish troops advance into Syria, Kurdish forces have now called on the Assad government to intervene on their behalf in a desperate attempt to protect themselves from the ethnic cleansing which awaits. The conflict in Syria has seen alliances shift and balances turn. All regional powers had invested in…

Can the protest movement threaten the Chinese ruling class? — We are witnessing some truly remarkable defiance in Hong Kong, where the authority of one of the world’s strongest superpowers is being challenged, tested and withstood. On the seventieth anniversary of China’s people’s revolution, the events in Hong Kong convey some very illuminating lessons for those of us who reap…