Responsibility laundering: how democracies outsource border violence

Border externalisation—the outsourcing of migration control to states beyond a country’s borders—has quietly become a defining feature of modern border policy. Marketed as “partnerships” and “capacity building, ” it in fact creates a transnational system of delegated violence, where accountability evaporates and suffering becomes someone else’s problem. The EU–Libya arrangement reveals this with brutal clarity.… Continue reading Responsibility laundering: how democracies outsource border violence

The Left’s Sultana Question: Unity or Principle?

Keir Starmer’s government hasn’t produced the left-wing momentum many hoped for. The latest YouGov poll shows 72% are dissatisfied with his performance as Prime Minister, spurring support for leftist and liberal challengers who might counter the surging hard-right populist Reform UK. The Green Party has emerged as a clear frontrunner in scooping up disenchanted Labour… Continue reading The Left’s Sultana Question: Unity or Principle?