UK Column

1 month ago | ukcolumn.org | Matthew Ehret

As of 9 March 2025, Mark Carney has officially been installed as interim Prime Minister of Canada, having replaced a beleaguered Justin Trudeau, whose usefulness to the ruling oligarchy is all used up. Throughout his ten-year tenure as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau demonstrated a consistent incompetence and detachment from the people of Canada whom he has assailed and insulted on numerous occasions, but is Mark Carney an improvement, or something much more dangerous?

Jan 7, 2025 | ukcolumn.org | Piers Robinson

Authors Note: The OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons)-Douma controversy concerns the issue of alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria. In 2018 the US, UK and France carried out missile strikes on Syria after accusing the Syrian government of having launched a chlorine gas attack that killed 43 civilians.

Dec 7, 2024 | ukcolumn.org | Debi Evans

What a week! So much has been happening that I barely know where to start. Perhaps I will start with a random tweet I posted a few days ago, not knowing it would have such an overwhelming response. Do you have a doctor and a health system that you trust? Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing Dr Teck Khong.Teck leads a new kind of political party, one with no right or left leanings. The Alliance for Democracy and Freedom is a centrist party with common sense policies.

Dec 1, 2024 | ukcolumn.org | Neil Harrison

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. These are the words of the 1st amendment of the United States of America’s Constitution. Just to be absolutely clear. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, no if’s, no but’s.

Nov 14, 2024 | ukcolumn.org | Mark C. Anderson

Over the last 10 years or so, it has become increasingly evident that the world’s internationalist think tanks, both neo-liberal and neo-conservative, are no longer content with writing policy papers about—and providing in-depth policy advice to politicians regarding—the subterranean undercurrents of foreign affairs.