The Lockdown: A World Without Prisons?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann join a live panel for an event with Bristol Momentum entitled, 'A World Without Prisons?'
Climate Campaigners Take on the Hostile Environment
On July 30th Reclaim The Power activists marched through the City of London and occupied a power station site as part of an ongoing week of action linking up climate justice and migrants’ rights campaigns.
Power Beyond Borders: Climate Activists Target the Hostile Environment
Charlotte England
Inside the climate camp where people within the environmental justice movement are learning to work together with activists on the frontline of fighting for migrants’ rights.
Rough Sleeping Is at Record Levels, so Why Don’t People Care?
Nye Jones
The Tories want people to believe homelessness is complex and rough sleepers are to blame for their situation. The truth is they have been let down by a system that could easily be changed if there was the political will to do so.
How to Bring Down a Government: Lessons From 1974
Callum Cant
With a fifth of the population living in poverty, impending climate breakdown and Boris Johnson in Downing Street, if there was ever a time to bring down the government, it’s now. What can we learn from the successes of the miners’ strike?
Novara FM: How Will He Govern?
James Butler and Aaron Bastani contemplate the future under Boris Johnson.
Definitely Maybe: What People Are Missing About China’s ‘Imminent’ Financial Crisis
James Meadway
Talk of an incoming Chinese financial crisis has rumbled on for the best part of a decade. In his latest column, James Meadway weighs up the factors affecting China's economic stability.
In Pictures: Thousands of People Protest As Boris Johnson Is Made Prime Minister
Patrycja Borecka
Several thousand people took to the streets of London on Wednesday to express their dismay, fury and defiance as Boris Johnson became Britain's new prime minister, with the explicit support of less than 0.25% of the electorate.
The Bastani Factor: Why Are ‘Moderates’ So…Weird?
This week saw both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats elect a new leader. For self-identified ‘moderates’ this provided yet more evidence of why Jeremy Corbyn is bad. But why are ‘moderates’ so…weird? Aaron thinks he has the answer.
Ash Wednesday: Boris Johnson: the Cystitis of Politics
Boris Johnson is the worst person in Parliament to be Prime Minister. And yet, here he is.
Novara Live: Surviving Boris Johnson – With Faiza Shaheen and Jonathan Portes
With a mandate from only 0.25% of the UK electorate, Boris Johnson has been elected Tory Party leader and Britain’s next Prime Minister. Johnson has called gay people “bumboys”, black people “picanninies” and compared muslim women to “letterboxes”. He’s now willing to take Britain to a no-deal Brexit. So, can Britain survive Boris? With Faiza […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is the Ultimate Expression of Neoliberalism in Collapse
Aaron Bastani
By tomorrow, newly-elected Conservative leader Boris Johnson will be Britain’s prime minister. Aaron Bastani argues the Johnson premiership will be the final, macabre act of the Thatcher supremacy - and whether it is replaced by something better is down to us.
The Bastani Factor: Why Are Labour’s Lords Attacking Jeremy Corbyn?
Over the last two weeks attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left have intensified. But what is the reality of the more than 60 Labour Lords who ‘called out’ his anti-racism? Who are they and what do their own records look like?
The Labour Right Would Prefer a Johnson Government to a Corbyn One. It’s Time to Replace Them
Aaron Bastani
This week 64 Labour Lords took out an advert in the Guardian criticising the party’s leadership. Aaron Bastani argues this represents a last ditch effort from the Labour right and their allies in the media to stifle any chance of a Corbyn-led government.
Ash Wednesday: You Don’t Give a Sh*t About Islamophobia. Here’s Why.
Holding the Conservative Party adequately to account on Islamophobia seems impossible. Why? Because for many it would mean taking a long look in the mirror. Video by Frances Freeman
Novara Live: Red Vs Blue Britain – With Gillian Keegan MP and James Meadway
The coming years in British politics will revolve around a single question: Do we want to live in Jeremy Corbyn’s or Boris Johnson’s Britain. To debate two visions for the economy and country, Gillian Keegan, Conservative MP for Chichester, and James Meadway, ex-advisor to John McDonnell, go head-to-head.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 4: Love and Hate
In this latest episode of #ACFM, Nadia, Jeremy and Keir discuss the politics of love and hate.
What Does England’s Cricket World Cup Win Have to Do With Neoliberalism?
David Wearing
On Sunday the England mens’ cricket team made history by winning the World Cup at Lords in London. But for most of the past month, you could have been forgiven for not knowing the World Cup was happening - let alone that this country was hosting it. David Wearing explains why.