Novara FM: Only Pleasure Can Save the Planet
Philosopher Kate Soper joins Clare Hymer to discuss alternative hedonism, political optimism and post-growth living.
Novara Live: The Vaccine Rush
The UK will start administering a coronavirus vaccine next week. But how did Britain manage to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine quicker than its peers, and should we worry that speed came at the expense of certainty? We speak to Professor Deenan Pillay of Independent SAGE. Plus: Aidan Harper on a 4 day week; UK government […]
Opinion: The Conservative Government is a Threat to National Security
David Wearing
With the announcement of a £16bn boost to military spending, the Tories are once again positioning themselves as the party of 'national security'. But from the mishandling of the pandemic to inaction on the climate crisis, it's they who are our biggest threat, argues David Wearing.
Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This
Nadia Whittome
Activists and lawyers should not have had to intervene this week to stop the Tories deporting people with a legal right to be in the UK, writes Nadia Whittome MP. The Jamaica deportation flight shows that for the Home Office, if you're black, poor and have a foreign passport, that's enough to fast-track you out.
Report: How We Won: The Stripper Who Took Her Club Boss to Court
Stacey Clare
A stripper, with the help of her union, made history by achieving a landmark ruling that saw her legally recognised as a worker. Stacey Clare reports.
Opinion: Is It Time for the Left to Back Nuclear Energy?
Craig Gent
In recent years, much of the green left has quietly dropped its historic opposition to nuclear energy in favour of 'constructive ambiguity'. With the need to decarbonise more pressing than ever, Craig Gent asks if the left needs to get off the fence.
Novara Live: The Beginning of the End
As Britain becomes the first Western country to approve a covid vaccine, ministers are desperate to claim credit for a German/US invention. But politics aside, does this mean the end of the pandemic is in sight? Plus: the first batch of lab grown chicken goes on sale in Singapore; Debenhams has followed Arcadia into administration; […]
Analysis: Big Tech’s Mission to Replace the Banks Will End in Tears
James Meadway
As long as profit is allowed to drive developments in fintech, the risks of catastrophic overreach remains, writes James Meadway.
Opinion: The Collapse of the Arcadia Group Spells the End of Britain’s High Street – When Will Politicians Act?
Aaron Bastani
If the Tories continue to offer no analysis of capitalism beyond doing nothing and saying 'that’s the market', the crisis of Britain’s high street - and with it, household and regional inequality - will only get worse, writes Aaron Bastani. Instead, we must repurpose high streets for the public good.
Analysis: Can Big Oil Be Trusted Now?
Joe Sandler Clarke
In recent months, BP, Shell, Eni, Total and Equinor have all committed to achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. Joe Sandler Clarke takes a look at what’s really going on behind these new green pledges.
Opinion: 25 Years on From the Disability Discrimination Act, Disabled People Still Face Oppression and Injustice
Ellen Clifford
It's no wonder disability rights legislation has failed, writes Ellen Clifford, when the very category of disability is essential to upholding capitalism. Disabled people will never be gifted full equality under a system that, in order to justify itself, needs them to have a worse experience of life than those better suited for exploitation.
Downstream: Can You Change the Police From Within? Ash Sarkar Meets Leroy Logan
20 years after the Macpherson Report, the Metropolitan Police is still dogged by accusations of institutional racism, while the Black Lives Matter movement has forced a reckoning with police brutality and inequalities in the criminal justice system. But should Black and Asian people protest from the outside to force change, or join the ranks of […]
Opinion: Can We Go Green Without Plundering the Global South?
Harpreet Kaur Paul
Is it possible to decarbonise the Global North's energy supply chains without yet more wealth and resource extraction from the Global South? Only by prioritising flourishing for all, argues human rights lawyer Harpreet Kaur Paul.
Opinion: The Police Are Going Backwards On Institutional Racism – And Their Most Powerful Officer is In Denial
Ash Sarkar
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick’s claim that nobody is being stopped and searched because of the colour of their skin is a gross insult to the public's intelligence, writes Ash Sarkar. Whatever progress has been made in tackling racism is now in retreat.
Report: Stop the Flight: Jamaica Deportation Shows Tories ‘Doubling Down’ on Hostile Environment, Activists Say
Sophie K Rosa
Just a week after a report found the government’s hostile environment policies broke equalities law and contributed to injustices faced by the Windrush generation, the Home Office plans to deport up to 50 men to Jamaica on Wednesday. Sophie K Rosa reports as activists race to stop the flight.
Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class
Aurelien Mondon
The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.
Novara Live: Whipping Boy
Keir Starmer was once a leading figure in Labour’s shift to backing a second referendum. However, now he’s in charge of the party, he looks set to whip MPs to back a Tory Brexit deal. Does this dramatic shift show Starmer has acted dishonestly over the past four years, or is he just adapting Labour […]
Long Read: Arctic Turbulence: Why Indigenous Communities Are Fighting Wind Farms
S Reid-Collins
Construction is continuing on the Øyfjellet Wind Park, which is set to become Norway's largest onshore wind farm. But the site runs right through the Jillen-Njaarke reindeer herding district, leading the Indigenous South Saami people to enter a battle for existence.