Monthly Magazine

Latest: Edition 84 – APRIL 2026

Sir Paul Marshall and the Rise of Elite Evangelical Nationalism

James Bloodworth
The Inhumane Cost of Spectacle: Iran Under Bombs

Kamin Mohammadi
Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning

Paul Conroy
The Modern Fausts Among Us

Jake Arnott

Edition 83 – MARCH 2026

Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

Hardeep Matharu
&
Peter Jukes
The Nepo Baby Strikes Back

Jake Arnott
The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity

Peter Jukes
Power Protects Itself Through Powerlessness

Hardeep Matharu

Edition 82 – February 2026

Building the Green Wall

Adam Bienkov
The Plastic Patriots’ Love Affair with Russia

James Bloodworth
Football’s Familiar Fear of the Frisson of Female Sexuality

Karen Dobres
There in Spirit: ‘Hamnet’ and Hamlet’s Ghost

Peter Jukes

Edition 81 – January 2026

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‘Lies’ and the Lobby

Adam Bienkov
Fun and Joy Are Very Powerful Political Forces

Hardeep Matharu
&
Peter Jukes
Beyond Nostalgia – The Left Needs a Lasting Vision Our Lost Society Can Latch On To

James Bloodworth
‘History is Not History When It Is Happening’

Alice Jolly

Edition 80 – December 2025

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‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’

Amy Wallace
&
Stephen Colegrave
‘The Hack’: ITV’s Phone-Hacking Drama Is Already Old News

Tom Chivers
That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Politics with a Difference

Caroline Lucas
From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence

Peter Jukes

Edition 79 – November 2025

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How the Alt-Right Gets In

Peter Jukes
&
Nafeez Ahmed
‘America Must Save Britain’

Josiah Mortimer
‘The Most Extreme Policies We’ve Had from Any Political Party’

Adam Bienkov
Oedipus and the ‘Other’ Within Us All

Jake Arnott

Edition 78 – October 2025

The Borsellino Bombing and the Rise of Berlusconi

Stefano Baudino
&
Riccardo Ongaro
How Trump’s ‘Reverse Algorithmic Capture’ Is Creating the Unseen Curators of Our New Digital Realities

Caroline Orr
Diaspora Dinners: Traditional Iranian Kotlets

Kamin Mohammadi
Inside The Patriot Games

Charlie Lloyd

Edition 77 – September 2025

Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment That Shows Everything That Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain

Emma Jones
The Grave that Lives Inside Him

Rana Sabbagh
‘I Don’t Have Many Male Friends Because Every Time They’re Misogynistic and Sexist I Tell Them to F*ck Off’

Nazir Afzal
Going After the ‘Invaders’ – A Protest in Portsmouth

James Bloodworth

Edition 76 – August 2025

The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation

Hardeep Matharu
‘The Moment We Assess Human Value by Ability, Productivity or Achievement, We Lose Our Humanity Itself’

Stephen Unwin
The Film that Changed My Life: Bonnie Greer on ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’

Bonnie Greer
Ed Davey: ‘Media Coverage? It’s a Lot Easier If You’re Prepared to Say Awful Stuff’

Adam Bienkov

Edition 75 – July 2025

The Real ‘Strangers’ Among Us

Danny Dorling
Inclusion and Humanness are an Answer to Starmer’s ‘Island of Strangers’

Saba Salman
‘The Left’s Answer has to be Place-First Not Party-First Politics’

Andy Burnham
On Love and War

Olesya Khromeychuk

Edition 74 – June 2025

Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class

Sonia Purnell
Science Fiction Gets to Truths Journalism Misses

Catherine Mayer
The Bitter After-Taste of the Candy Man’s Conspiracy

Otto English
Zeitgeisters – Rebecca Solnit

John Mitchinson

Edition 73 – May 2025

‘We Have Utterly Decimated Our Rivers’

Patrick Galbraith
‘There May Not Be Any Institutions Left to Rebuild – the Democrats Need to Project Confidence and Keep Fighting’

Alexandra Hall Hall
Being Braver Than We Want To Be

Heidi Siegmund Cuda
‘This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’

Carole Cadwalladr