Novara Live: Bernie: Unbeaten
Michael and Aaron talk over the results of the New Hampshire primary, the government’s rushed deportation to Jamaica, and preview the first televised Labour leadership debate.
Report: ‘If anything is worth stopping, this is’: Activists Say They Will Fight Harder, As Johnson Backs HS2
Greg Frey
Boris Johnson has approved the controversial high speed rail link connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, despite revelations about the cost of the project and the threat it poses to the environment. Greg Frey reports on the movement to stop HS2.
Report: Activists Have Occupied an Abandoned High Security Police Station
Harriet Williamson
Activists have occupied the abandoned high security police station at Paddington Green, London. The successful occupation, which started on 7 February, has ambitions for creating a lasting impact in the local community. Harriet Williamson reports.
Opinion: The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System
Rudy Schulkind
Despite public outcry a deportation flight has forcibly removed fathers from their families, to a country some don’t even remember. Rudy Schulkind asks, how did we get here?
Opinion: Public Health Is Always Political, Coronavirus Is No Exception
Jo Sutton-Klein
When their other policies are unpopular or failing, epidemics present a chance for governments to regain support through a performance of competency and to further restrictive rightwing agendas, argues junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein.
Novara Live: Interview With Richard Burgon
Labour Party Deputy Leadership Candidate Richard Burgon joins Michael Walker to discuss his peace pledge, party reform and why he thinks he deserves Labour members’ votes.
Opinion: Third-Sector Workers’ Grievances Point to the Shortcomings of the Charity Sector
Benjamin Morgan
St Mungo’s homelessness workers have voted to strike over employment conditions, while raising the charity’s history of working with the Home Office. Benjamin Morgan argues more third-sector workers need to make the link between their own struggles at work and charities' failures to stand up for the rights of vulnerable people.
Opinion: A Four-Day Week Is Possible
Aidan Harper
Abandoning demands for shorter working hours risks discarding a highly popular policy with the capacity to transform our society for the betterment of all, argues Aidan Harper.
Ireland’s Voters Have Delivered a Political Earthquake
Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin
In Northern Ireland's snap general election, left-wing party Sinn Féin has made huge gains, surpassing even its own expectations. Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin explore what this shock result could mean for the country.
Opinion: Electability Matters, but Its Deployment Is Political
Aaron Bastani
There's no denying that electability is crucial to a party's viability, but don’t be fooled when it’s used to avoid talking about the issues that matter, argues Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: Sinn Fein Gain?
Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss Iain Dale’s GMB walkout, and why centrists can only play politics on easy mode; Richard’s Burgon’s “Peace Pledge”; and the upcoming elections in Ireland with Sinn Fein Senator Paul Gavan.
How the Sinn Féin Surge Is Shaking up Ireland’s Politics
Conor Boyes
Conor Boyes explains how Sinn Féin is pulling the rug from under Ireland's ruling duopoly with a surge that has implications for progressive politics in the Republic, as well as for politics north of the border.
Novara FM: No Going Back: Defeat, the Far Right, and the Press
James Butler is joined by Owen Jones to take stock as the Left faces 2020.
Ash Wednesday: They All Look the Same, Don’t They?!!
Why do the British media seem to have such a hard time identifying people who share the same skin tone? Ash Sarkar takes a look at the phenomenon known as ‘cross-race effect’.
‘We Are Not Lying Down’: The Teachers Leading France’s Strike Wave
Olly Haynes
The government's proposed pension reforms have triggered a wave of strikes across France. One group that will be particularly hurt by the reforms is teachers. Olly Haynes spoke to some of them about the impact of such changes.
Novara Live: Powder and Smoke – Inside the War on Drugs
The war on drugs has failed, but at what cost? And what are the possible solutions from Colombia to Britain? Aaron Bastani is joined by Antony Loewenstein – author of Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs.
Report: Over 50 Offensive Coronavirus-Themed Products Pulled From Amazon
Joe Goodman
Over 50 offensive Coronavirus-themed products were listed on the company’s site before they were removed this week. Joe Goodman reports.
Opinion: Labour Must Take Welsh Independence Seriously
Harriet Protheroe Davis
With the appetite for sovereignty growing across the country, the way Labour and the wider left choose to engage with the issue will determine their place in Welsh politics, writes Harriet Protheroe Davis.