Signs of the Times
Easter 2025 Collection of News Articles and Recommended Books
In every edition of the T4CG Newsletter, we assemble a collection of articles from across the new and legacy media to help you navigate this time of change. This is our latest list for the Easter Season, 2025. Given the current upheaval, it is long, although by no means exhaustive; we hope you find these links helpful. Scroll down to the bottom for our latest Recommended books.
New geopolitical order
NS Lyons Our leadership classes’ lack of love for their own people is dissolving our societies
Paul Knaggs The Death of Globalisation: How Trump’s Tariffs Exposed a Broken Economic Model
Oren Cass Explainer on nationalist economic policy and the failure of globalisation
NS Lyons American Strong Gods: Trump and the end of the Long Twentieth Century
Scott Bessent Trump adviser explains how the international economic system should change
Stephen Miran A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System (Tariff Strategy, Nov 2024)
Gladden Pappin From Liberal Order to Pragmatic Partnership: The Transatlantic Realignment
Perry Anderson So far no populism, on the right or left, has produced a challenge to neoliberalism
Ralph Leonard How Trump Stole the Future From the Left
Aris Roussinos Leftists should relish Trump’s revolution: the end of neoliberalism brings opportunity
Leslie Cockburn 1998 The “60 minutes” interview George Soros tried to ban
Jonny Ball For years the left bemoaned free markets - but it’s the right which is ending globalisation
Mary Harrington The post-place culture: global homogenisation has its own class structure
UK
Blue Labour Statement on national sovereignty and covenant with the British people
Fred Sculthorp The condition of Britain, and where we are headed next
Lord Glasman The battle of the next election is Blue Labour vs Reform
Geraldine Scott British Steel tries to reverse CCP 'sabotage' of Scunthorpe furnace
Jessica Elgot/Jasper Jolly British Steel race against time to save Scunthorpe furnaces
Danielle de Wolfe UK so desperate for fuel, Royal Navy ‘on alert’ to escort shipments
Aris Roussinos The logic of nationalising British steel leads inexorably to the end of Net Zero
George Eaton Blue Labour calls for the the abolition of the treasury
Lord Glasman Parliamentary speech on the nationalisation of British steel
Jim Armitage UK electricity costs 50% more than Germany & France and 4 times as the US
Patrick Maguire Farage serious in red wall heartlands is now pro unions and industrial policy
Lisa McKenzie The Working Class Needs Jobs, Not Therapy
Despotic Inroad What MAGA can teach Labour: The state can change the world
Tom McTague The deep rot of the British state: old orthodoxies are holding us back
Rachel Hall JD Vance says US hopeful of ‘great’ trade deal with UK
Katy Balls/Michael Gove Interview with Wes Streeting: radical plans for the NHS
Will Lloyd Birmingham: Fatalistic Brummies are learning to live like people in wartime cities
Aris Roussinos Britain’s defence delusions: Its fatal flaw is wishful thinking
Matt Dathan UN backs ‘return hubs’ to process failed asylum seekers abroad
National Institute of Economic and Social Research UK Living Standards Review 2025
Darran Anderson Netflix is degrading our politics: “Adolescence” isn't a documentary
Centre for Social Justice Lost Boys: in this generation it is boys who are being left behind
Danny Shaw How Islamist gangs are taking over Britain’s jails
ML Friend Inside Britain’s two-tier justice system: racial activism is corrupting the law
Will Jones “Two-Tier Justice” as Ethnic Minority and Transgender Criminals to Get Special Treatment
Ed West The morality policing and censorship in Britain today is reminiscent of a century ago
Andrew Doyle Britain’s clampdown on free speech is astonishing. And disturbing
Humanity
Assisted suicide
Danny Kruger New clause will change the NHS to the National Health and Assisted Suicide Service
Dan Hitchens How Assisted Suicide Will Undo the NHS
Rape gang scandal
Julie Bindel Grooming gangs are still in Britain (long interview)
Julie Bindel Grooming gangs scandal isn’t over: Labour is looking the other way
Kathleen Stock By refusing to focus on ethnicity, Jess Phillips fails grooming victims again
Dominic Penna Blue Labour opposes Starmer over “national evil” of grooming gangs
Maggie Oliver Wilful blindness & neglect of duty': rape gangs whistleblower launches #TheyKnew
UK Supreme Court judgement on biological sex
Observer editorial Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone
Sex Matters Sex matters: putting the Supreme Court ruling into practice
Scott/Manning/Sanderson Every UK organisation must revise equality policies
Sanchez Manning What the trans ruling means for sports and single-sex services
Graham Linehan It will take decades to undo the trans movement damage
Ethan Croft Despite Supreme Court ruling GMC will allow trans doctors to hide biological sex
Andrew Doyle Labour ministers wanting to undermine the ruling misunderstand the law
Victoria Smith Sex denialists are doubling down on their own irrationality
Janice Turner The fight for biological sex was long and bitter: we won’t forget our opponents
Paul Knaggs Trans is not left wing: there is nothing socialist about denying material reality
Camilla Tominey/Kamal Ahmed Supreme Court rules that trans women are not women
Suzanne Moore The courts have spelled out what our politicians are too scared to say
Kathleen Stock How women won the gender wars
Joanna Cherry Nicola Sturgeon should apologise
Children
Jon Haidt/Zach Rausch TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
Mark Sellman Snapchat is Harming Children on an Industrial Scale
Laila Micklethwait How “free” Porn Sites Really Work (and Who Runs Them)
AI and transhumanism
Jennifer Bilek Transhumanist Reproduction is Already Here and "Transgenderism" is its Front
Matthew Gasda San Fran’s AI cult: a religion envisioning transcending the human being
Anthony McCarthy The media applauds womb transplants despite its deconstruction of maternity
US
Tanvi Ratna The Tariff Aftermath: Welcome to 195-D Chess
Batya Ungar Sargon Trump is waging class warfare on Wall Street for the working class (interview)
Michael Lind So What if Tariffs are Taxes? The Goal is a Just Economy, Not Market Efficiency
Bianco/Kanu/Cheney/Gerstein Supreme Court blocks more deportations under Alien Enemies Act
Oren Cass One of America’s preeminent critics of Free trade makes the case for tariffs (interview)
Anna Matson Trump Cabinet meeting April 10th
Michael Shellenberger Tariff Chaos: forcing the market to serve the interests of the whole nation
Rob Atkinson The Trump tariffs are the opening volley in a negotiating strategy
Patrick Deneen Why the MAGA-DOGE coalition will hold: common enemies and overlapping aims
Joeri Schasfoort Making sense of Trump’s tariff chaos
Mary Harrington Trump was a decoloniser all along: the empire is being dismantled
Francis P. Sempa Trump’s team of realists
Karl Mehta US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Trump’s tariff plan
Deborah Friedell Musk offered to do to America what he’d done for Twitter
Marco Rubio To Protect Free Speech, The Censorship-Industrial Complex Must Be Dismantled
International
Olena Goncharova UK may scale back plans to deploy ground troops to Ukraine
Blair/Barnes/Stringer Trump to let Putin keep land seized from Ukraine
Marc Bennetts North Korean troops preparing to fight for Putin inside Ukraine
Rod Dreher Civil war in Europe may be closer than anyone dares say
Sohrab Ahmari JD Vance interview on Europe explained plus full transcript
Thomas Fazi Giorgia Meloni won’t save EU from Trump’s tariffs
Colin Freeman Child soldiers, gang violence and murders blight once peaceful Sweden
Charlie Parker British Jewish leaders condemn Netanyahu’s Gaza offensive
Douglas Murray Reconstructing our Culture | Renewal and Renaissance
Wa Lone Carney says China is a foreign interference, geopolitical threat for Canada
Haaretz Editorial Netanyahu Is Considering a Limited Strike on Iran – That Is Complete Insanity
Changing Church
Tony Barber Pope Francis, reformer of modern Catholicism, 1936-2025
Austen Ivereigh Pope Francis on the failure of Jesus and the pathway to hope
Tim Stanley A deeply loved and courageous Pope, who enjoyed rocking the boat
Isabel Keane JD Vance pays tribute to Pope Francis after they met
Vatican 1700th anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea
Catherine Pepinster Bible Society research: Catholicism overtakes CofE as UK's main denomination
Mary Harrington The Quiet Revival: Christianity is growing stranger
Madeline Grant The strange rebirth of Christian England
Jon Kuhrt/Jenny Sinclair Challenging Power, Changing Practice & Deepening Spirituality
Recommended Books
Easter Season 2025
Rocco Buttiglione Modernity’s Alternative: How History is Formed in the Depths of the Peoples (with Introduction by Pope Francis)
Andrew Willard Jones Church Against the State
Tomas Halik The afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change
Joseph Evans When God Hides: Contemplative Poetry
Jonathan Haidt The Anxious Generation
Ilora Finlay/Julian Hughes The Reality of Assisted Dying: Understanding the Issues
Bobo/Rogers/Leithart Hell Shall Not Prevail: Essays on Ecclesiocentric Postliberalism