The real ‘struggle of our generation’ is not terrorism

A new “struggle of our generation” emerges every six months, and all around us existential crises are ignored. In the longer term, climate change, antibiotic resistance, soil loss and nuclear proliferation by states (including our own) are orders of magnitude more dangerous than Islamic extremism.

Defence of ‘blood for oil’ distracts us from the deeper, systemic causes of the Crisis of Civilisation

While there is certainly much to celebrate in the values, principles and achievements we associate with modernity, Tony Blair’s black and white vision is incapable of acknowledging that the expansion of global capitalism was and remains a deeply violent process.