United Kingdom of Insecurity: Finsbury Park and the stench of neglect at Grenfell
We now inhabit a country – and a world – that is bracing itself for the next atrocity and the next massacre.
Author Matt Carr
Bring in the Tory clowns after their tin-eared and dim-witted election campaign
Theresa May’s government has driven itself and the country into a hole and it has no idea how to get out.
How Jeremy Corbyn made the country suddenly feel like a better place to live in
On 8 June 2017, a new political generation made its voice heard for the first time.
It isn’t rocket science: why I’m definitely voting Labour and you should too
Theresa May’s government cannot be allowed to inflict even more damage on British society.
The terror election and what we can do about it
We should never allow ourselves to descend into the sewer that those who carried out the London Bridge attacks would like us to sink into.
Look at Theresa May and her party, and just say no, before it’s too late
May is unable to learn from history as she rushes towards a collision between illusion and reality.
Brazenly indifferent to reality: the gospel according to Saint Theresa
The values that Theresa May invokes are so glaringly at odds with what her government is actually doing.
Bombs and chocolate: how crazed clown Donald Trump staggers into World War III
Trump is probably a deranged psychopath who ought to struggle even to get a firearms license – let alone run the world’s only superpower.
From a clown to a king: How Donald Trump acquired his halo and liberal media cheers
Trump has become a figure worthy of respect and admiration, simply because he ordered 59 tomahawk missiles to be fired.
Are Cruella de May and her Brexit-skinning crazy gang about to run off a cliff?
Out of their depth on Brexit with no idea what they’re doing, it’s no suprise that the Tories are talking up war with Spain.
The house that Brexit built is not a pretty sight
The new British future is already beginning to emerge out of the fog of government incompetence, lies and fading promises.
Put out the flags and cheer: Brexit is Britain’s liberation from EU tyranny
Bliss was it to be alive: who will ever forget the glorious day when the UK finally threw off the yoke of the European Union?
Bigots are quick to exploit murder in Westminster for their own ends
We cannot allow bigots to use this atrocity for their own ends and whip up precisely the kind of hatred that its perpetrators undoubtedly seek.
The dirtiest, ugliest and most dishonest political campaign in British history
There is nothing good whatsoever about the decision that was taken on Thursday 23 June 2016 and the politics that made it possible.
Why elite pigs in a trough like Tony Blair and George Osborne prosper from failure
The elite is not governed by the rules that govern the rest of us, it exists only for itself, in order to enrich its members, says Matt Carr.
This poisonous government drives anti-immigrant phobia to new pitch of strident hysteria
We have allowed this government to pander to bigotry, prejudice and intolerance and to scapegoat minorities, writes Matt Carr.
Reflections on Trump’s Muslim ban and the massacre that never was
Have we entered a cultural and political environment in which a 21st century fascism is possible?
Brexit is dragging Britain towards one of the great self-inflicted wounds in its history
It’s a mind-boggling combination of malice, idiocy, prejudice, magical thinking and epic incompetence, says Matt Carr.
Is Donald Trump a fascist who threatens the end of civilisation as we know it?
Trump’s conception of American power is not very different from many politicians before him, says Matt Carr.
2016: That was the year that was of living fearfully
2016 will go down in history as a watershed year when the old political establishment was rejected by an unprecedented electoral insurgency that was dominated by the right and extreme right.