Archive - David Gow: Cosmopolitan Villager

Will the euro acquire global wings?

We’re in the throes of watching the American century end and a new multipolar order come into being. The EU is looking to boost the euro’s reserve…

Jul 9 •

June 2025

Make Europe Great Again

American and European Far Right ideologues are joining forces to promote the dismemberment of the modern settlement and impose a reactionary future

Jun 17 •

Let's hear it for NHS staff

They save the health service on a daily basis. We - state and society - owe them effective structural reforms that guarantee its sustained survival

Jun 7 •

May 2025

A coalition willing change

Scotland needs new faces, new policies, new heart: a fresh government that can take on and see off Reform in 2026 and thereafter.

May 13 •

April 2025

US President Trump is dismantling the 80-year-old economic and security order and seeking to install a new American imperialist autarky. Time for Europe…

Apr 3 •

March 2025

Squeeze the rich

Liz Kendall’s proposals for welfare reform/cuts have brought a renewed spate of calls for a wealth tax to raise revenue for public services and benefits…

Mar 20 •

Starmer's only choice: Europe

The British prime minister should abandon the illusion that Britain can act as a bridge between the US and Europe and opt for full-blooded European…

Mar 9 •

February 2025

Wir schaffen das diesmal - oder?

The Far Right AfD doubled its vote share to one in five in the February 23 Bundestagswahl - reaching out to many more younger voters and west Germans…

Feb 24 •

Reinvigorating hope for the future

In a time of upheaval in Europe, taking us back to the 1930s, we in Scotland need to rethink what future we want

Feb 20 •

Trump’s brutal truth

The US President and his cohort of complicit acolytes are changing the geo-strategic order into an ugly game among barbarians

Feb 14 •

January 2025

Back to our European future

The choice is clear, Rachel and Keir: growth, security and a sustainable outlook lie in greater closeness to Europe

Jan 29 •

We’re allowing the Far Right to set the pace

In Europe as in the US and elsewhere in the world the authoritarian, anti-democratic Right is on the march again. It should be fought and stopped.

Jan 14 •

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