Part of the Why I Left the Left series.
My parting of the ways with the left, or rather the Marxist-oriented left, was a complex one. It took place during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the European socialist states, although for a time I deluded myself that something better might emerge, or even that it might be preferable if the regimes survived. […]
The ongoing protests in Hong Kong and the horrific treatment of mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have focused attention once again on the totalitarian monster that is the Peoples Republic of China. It is estimated that there are around one million Uyghurs held in labour camps where indoctrination, torture and murder are the order of the […]