Tag archives for Donald Trump
Profit from Division
Leverage is emerging in the fractures of polarised political culture. One venture capitalist prospecting in nationalist movements financed far-right agitators who successfully campaigned in UK and US elections, gaining access…
Cliff Notes for Fascism
To provide an early warning system for fascism Gregory Chatfield follows the antics of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, both leaders seemingly immune to truth and pressing the same emotive…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Fear: Trump in the White House By Bob Woodward (Simon and Schuster, £20) Review by Paul Hunt HIP readers familiar with local history will know that in 1822 the residents…
ERDOGAN’S SINKING SHIP
Talk of Donald Trump’s possible impeachment has pushed his sanctions against NATO ally Turkey off the front pages. But the US leader’s intemperate reaction to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s continued…
Small Pockets of Resistance
Hastings Trump protest by April Yasamee Friday 13th July 2018 saw the co-ordinated, mass response to Donald Trump’s visit to the UK, with thousands attending demonstrations in our major cities.…
U.S. and Them
Hold onto your jeans through the Levi levy trade war Last week the EU imposed tariffs on the US in retaliation for tariffs recently imposed by the US on long-standing…
Upcoming Event – No to Trump, No to War
Donald Trump gets ready to visit the UK, and Hastings gets ready to greet him by holding a ‘No to Trump’ meeting: Thursday 5th July, , Central Hall, Hastings, with…
Bombing in the Middle-East
Abraham West News that the UK was involved in a bombing mission in Syria was announced by Donald Trump at a press conference and shared on Twitter at on Saturday…
Politikal Pokes by Lobbytroll
by Lobbytroll THE SUN HAS GOT HIS KIT OFF The news that The Sun, the UK’s intellectual mouthpiece, has lost £48 million brought a tear to my eye – and…
Mobs and Rockers
Stephen Cullis and Simone Witney Stephen Hawking had one word to describe the phenomenon known as Donald Trump: demagogue. We have to go back to 5th Century Athens to discover…
Sausage Life
by Bird Guano The column that doesn't shrink when you put it in the tumble dryer. MYSELF: Why the long face? READER: I’m not happy with all this Brexit mullarkey.…