Novara Live: Shamima Begum Can’t Come Home
The Supreme Court have ruled Shamima Begum has no right to return to Britain to appeal the removal of her citizenship. Is the UK abdicating responsibility?
Opinion: Until He Starts Talking About Rent Caps, Keir Starmer Isn’t Serious About Championing Business
Aaron Bastani
For all his posturing, Keir Starmer’s efforts to recast Labour as the party of business are entirely cosmetic, argues Aaron Bastani. If he really wanted to address the challenges businesses face, he’d be talking about rent caps.
Novara FM: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.
Analysis: Alexei Navalny Is a Complicated Figure – But a Gift to the Russian Left
Volodya Vagner
The opposition politician is a chameleon and a nationalist - yet the massive support he has mobilised may give the left the momentum it needs to unseat Putin, writes Volodya Vagner.
Novara Live: Starmer Outflanked by Tories on Corporation Tax
Labour have confirmed that if Rishi Sunak raises corporation tax at next week's budget, they will vote against it.
Opinion: A Spanish Company is Building an Apartheid Railway in Israel – Now It Wants in on HS2
Zakaria Odeh
Companies abetting human rights abuses shouldn't be rewarded with lucrative government contracts - they must be boycotted until they end complicity with apartheid, writes Palestinian organiser Zakaria Odeh.
Downstream: Is the Left Failing on Free Speech? Interview With Ronan Burtenshaw
Does the right actually care about free speech? Why should free speech matter to the left? Aaron Bastani speaks to editor of Tribune Magazine, Ronan Burtenshaw.
Analysis: Is the Hague Finally About to Challenge Israeli Impunity?
Rania Muhareb
For decades, Israel has faced no consequences for its systematic breaches of international law. A recent ruling from the International Criminal Court could change that, argues Palestinian human rights scholar Rania Muhareb.
Opinion: The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
Joe Duffy
A new report by a rightwing thinktank on "unleashing investment" in the north of England provides a grim insight into how the government may convert its Brexit majority into an even more sinister political settlement under the guise of concern for regional equality, writes Joe Duffy.
Novara Live: The Exit Plan
Boris Johnson delivers his roadmap out of lockdown. Do his plans for students to all return on the 8th March risk a resurgence? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: To the Free Speech Warriors of the Right, Only Some Speech Matters
Barnaby Raine
We shouldn’t be confused by the Tories championing free speech one moment, suppressing it the next. It’s always been perfectly clear whose speech matters to them, argues Barnaby Raine.
Novara Live: Starmer’s Reboot Speech
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial
Report: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame
Sophie K Rosa
Despite the government's assurances that anyone, regardless of their settlement status, can receive the coronavirus vaccine, many migrants are still afraid to do so. Sophie K Rosa looks at how the hostile environment has created a culture of fear around healthcare.
Opinion: Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That
James McAsh
There's a reason small class sizes and rich extracurricular provision are staples of private schooling, writes primary teacher James McAsh.
Opinion: Why Should the BBC Licence Fee Fund Britain’s ‘Soft Power’?
Aaron Bastani
One of the reasons we should care about the BBC, we are told, is because the World Service allows Britain to punch above its weight on the world stage. Aaron Bastani asks: should the licence fee really be funding our country's obsessive pursuit of the illusion of global influence?
Novara Live: Starmer Called Out by Key Ally
Tom Kibasi weighs in on Keir Starmer's Leadership of the Labour party.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the UK and Gulf Monarchies Helped Crush Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement
David Wearing
Ten years ago today, regime security forces in Bahrain attacked unarmed protesters camped at Pearl Roundabout, Manama. In the third piece of his series on the Arab uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the UK helped crush Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.
Downstream: Maybe Don’t Defund the BBC? Interview With Nish Kumar
This week on Downstream Ash Sarkar met with Nish Kumar - comedian and host of The Mash Report - to talk about how he became the accidental face of the Defund the BBC movement, and why rightwing comics are the real snowflakes.