Tom Hazeldine

1 month ago | newleftreview.org | Tom Hazeldine

With the death of Hugh Roberts, the world has lost a foremost scholar of contemporary Arab politics and history. His last book, Loved Egyptian Night (2024), a retrospect on the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria, displayed the adamantine clarity that characterised all his work: ‘If politics – in the sense of the practice of politics – is, as Bismarck declared, an art, not a science, the study of politics must be a branch of criticism’, he begins.

Mar 11, 2025 | diario.red | Tom Hazeldine

El colapso del extremo centro en el Reino Unido de la mano de sir Keir Starmer y de susoperaciones geopolíticas señala con nitidez la deriva de sus colegas europeos presos en el mismo proceso de descomposición política y belicismo criminal El comportamiento prepotente del gobierno de Trump para con los aliados de la OTAN ha consternado a los atlantistas liberales, pero mientras que Scholz y Trudeau ya estaban sin duda alguna hace tiempo amortizados y Macron se encuentra absolutamente...

Mar 7, 2025 | newleftreview.org | Tom Hazeldine

The Trump Administration’s high-handed behaviour towards NATO allies has dismayed liberal Atlanticists. But whereas Scholz and Trudeau were already for the chop, and Macron is a lame duck, the falling out between the White House and Europe over Ukraine has boosted the domestic standing of Keir Starmer to record heights within the Westminster bubble. In its first six months the new Labour government was universally derided, at home more vociferously than abroad.

Feb 20, 2025 | diario.red | Tom Hazeldine |Álvaro Vicente |Ignacio A. Reyes |Carmela Negrete

Catorce años después de que el Partido Laborista cayera malamente derrotado, entre bancos en quiebra, desempleo galopante y cruentas guerras en el extranjero, ha vuelto al poder con un líder de rostro adusto y una mayoría incontestable: 411 de 650 escaños.

Sep 23, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Tom Hazeldine

Fourteen years after Labour crashed to defeat, amid failing banks, soaring unemployment and grinding foreign wars, it has been returned to power under a hatchet-faced leader with an unassailable majority: 411 out of 650 mps.