Ed McNally

My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions | Andrea Egan I have been appalled by Wes Streeting’s attacks on resident doctors. The destructive right wing of the Labour party should know that this is a new era, says the general secretary-elect of Unison, Andrea Egan

My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions | Andrea Egan

Into the Abyss In the landscape of contemporary European politics, our rulers seem increasingly intent on walking us towards catastrophe — an ‘eyes wide shut’ approach that badly misremembers the cautionary tales of...

My piece from the latest Tribune on 'sleepwalking' elites and Chris Clark vis. Perry Anderson is now unpaywalled tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/into...

I have an essay in the spring issue of Tribune (out soon) on ‘sleepwalking’ elites and Christopher Clark vis. Perry Anderson

Ed McNally, Instruments of Empire, NLR 152, March–April 2025 Ed McNally on Hugh Wilford, The CIA: An Imperial History. Antidote to apologias for the US intelligence agency, a periodization from the Truman Doctrine to the ‘war on terror’.

I wrote about histories of the CIA for the latest issue of New Left Review (unpaywalled): newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...

Glad to see some serious reflection on James Connolly as a political thinker.

My journal article on James Connolly as a pioneering anti-colonial thinker is online, open access in Modern Intellectual History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Road to Freedom Runs Through Palestine From Cairo to London, Israel's brutal assaults have spurred a return of mass politics confronting all forms of injustice. The simple truth is that none of us are free until Palestine is.

My Tribune piece on Palestine as a popular cause which opens the way for mass politics not just in the Middle East but here in Britain too: tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/the-...

Sicily reading

send him an invite code comrade

Joe Biden blocked Ben Wallace from top Nato role after F-16 row Defence Secretary had been a front-runner to succeed Jens Stoltenberg, but failed to secure support of Washington

This is extremely funny, fair play to Biden

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/05/ben-wallace-nato-chief-joe-biden-ukraine-f16/

Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records, experts say The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals.

""So in all, oceans are being hit by a quadruple whammy," he said. "It's a sign of things to come."
Thousands of dead fish have been washing up on Texan beaches and heat-induced algal blooms have also been blamed for killing sea lions and dolphins in California."