IMOBastani: A Broken Economy
This week’s PMQs revealed just how badly the Tories are managing the British economy
Carillion – a Bailout by Any Other Name
At PMQs today, Theresa May’s arguments, like Carillion’s finances, were on the verge of collapse.
All The Best: Choo-Choo! All Aboard the Deselection Express!
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin celebrate the completion of Jeremy Corbyn’s Red Army Takeover of the Labour Party.
IMOBastani: Carillion Shows the System Is Rigged
From hedge funds profiting to government negligence, when ‘business leaders’ talk about economic competence, they mean keeping the system rigged: for them.
OMFG Sarkar: Tech Can’t Solve Rape Culture
Consent isn’t a contract – the allegations against Aziz Ansari show that men can’t rely on an over-simplistic tech solution to challenge rape culture.
The Fix: President Shithole and Nige the Remoaner
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani talk Labour’s NEC election, Farage’s second referendum pitch, the Carillion collapse and President Shithole.
Elephant and Castle: Students Protest University’s Role in Gentrification
UAL Students
Students at the University of the Arts London occupied their Southwark campus to protest the part it has to play in the creeping gentrification of Elephant and Castle.
Ink It Onto Your Knuckles – Carillion Is How Neoliberalism Lives and Breathes
Paul Mason
The rise and fall of the construction and outsourcing firm Carillion captures what neoliberalism is all about. It's time end the system of state-subsidised profiteering and establish a new deal, argues Paul Mason.
Long Read: What Does Justice Look Like Without Prisons?
Oonagh Ryder
Justice can't be delivered by mass prison systems trading in human suffering and exploitation.
Eugenics Is Not a Fringe Issue – It Influences UK Immigration Policy
Beth Davies-Kumadiro
It recently came to light that Toby Young was an attendee at a eugenics conference secretly held at UCL last year. But far from being a fringe issue, eugenics has worrying links to UK immigration policy, writes Beth Davies-Kumadiro.
Novara FM: Lexit 2019?
On the first #NovaraFM of 2018, James Butler and Aaron Bastani discus Brexit, 'Lexit' and the progress and potentials of leaving the European Union. Are we all Lexiters now?
The Lockdown: Prisons: Abolition or Reform?
Hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann interview Dr David Scott, who explains what prison abolition is and what the alternatives are. They discuss the failings of the current penal system, the naive utopianism of reform and the practicalities of penal abolition.
The Fix: Cabinet Reshambles
This week on The Fix Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss Theresa May’s latest reshuffle, Toby Young and more.
4 Things to Remember About the Toby Young Scandal
Nathan Akehurst
Far from just being a creep who was somehow appointed to direct the new Office for Students, Toby Young has spent years shaping himself as an educationalist of sorts. Today he resigned - here are the takeaways from the slow-burn car crash.
All The Best: ATB: Now We’re Paying Even More to Commute to Work for the Privilege of Being Exploited
Becky Boumelha joins Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly to talk the serious issue of party democracy after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the important matters of the day such as “melt of the week” – Richard Branson’s little beard.
Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk
Dr J
In part two of a series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E, Dr J asks how the language of 'difficult choices' and 'tough decisions' undercuts the key principles of a universal NHS while distracting us from the political decisions underlying the crisis.