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What Does WYS Mean?
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; New Politic “Wys” has become an increasingly common greeting. In a British context, the acronym stands for “What [are] you saying”, similar to “What’s up” or “How are you doing?” The correct response is to respond…
How Britain Became a Playground for Etonian Rivalry
Left: David Cameron rehearsing his speech at Conservative Party Conference 2012. Right: Boris Johnson preparing his speech backstage at Conservative Party Conference 2012. Boris Johnson is clinging to his premiership like a fly clings to a turd, but not for…
Drunk on Genocide How the Nazis Celebrated Murdering Jews
Defendants in the docls during the Nuremburg Trials. In the front row, from left to right: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel (in second row, from left to right): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz…
How Our Meritocracy Turned Tyrannical
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; Unsplash We are told we are not “victims of circumstance, but masters of our fate”. Those who achieve success have made it on their own. This age old mantra of the American Dream is deeply embedded into…
Big Pharma The Patent White Knight of Pandemics?
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, addresses his remarks at a coronavirus update briefing Monday, March 16, 2020, in the James S. Brady…
Only Conservative MPs Can End This
Jessica Taylor / Parliament “[Boris Johnson] should have resigned a long, long time ago,” Tan Dhesi recently told me, Labour’s shadow minister for railways. “The Partygate scandal is just the latest in a litany of constant misdemeanours and outright abuse…
The Real Cecil Rhodes
This article is part of Project Empire, an editorial series designed to explore the history of the British Empire. See the full collection here » I doubt many of us would feel comfortable putting up a statue with the following…
Russia is in Economic Meltdown
New Politic The invasion of Ukraine has placed Russia on the verge of bankruptcy. Interest rates have doubled, the stock market has closed, and the rouble has fallen to its lowest level ever. The military costs of war have been exacerbated by an unprecedented level of…
75 Years On The Story of Partition
On a late summer’s afternoon of 15 August 1945, King George VI stood up to make his annual King’s speech at the Opening of Parliament in Westminster, London. “In accordance with the promises already made to my Indian peoples,” he…
170,000 Deaths and Counting
150,000 hearts stretch 500m along the Thames opposite Parliament. Each heart, drawn by volunteers, represents someone loved, who lost their life to Covid / John Cameron Britain’s fight against COVID-19 has, amongst other things, been a pandemic of firsts. In…