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?
Until He Starts Talking About Rent Caps, Keir Starmer Isn’t Serious About Championing Business
Aaron Bastani
For all his pro-business posturing, the Labour leader is ignoring one of the biggest issues most companies face.
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.
Alexei Navalny Is a Complicated Figure – But a Gift to the Russian Left
Volodya Vagner
A political chameleon he may be, but one that has re-energised a stodgy opposition.
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.
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.
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.
Is the Hague Finally About to Challenge Israeli Impunity?
Rania Muhareb
For decades, Israel has faced no consequences for its human rights violations in Palestine. A new International Criminal Court ruling could change that.
The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
Joe Duffy
A leading Tory thinktank is advocating for a regional extension of Thatcherite policies, which would have potentially worrying consequences for the north and the left.
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.
To the Free Speech Warriors of the Right, Only Some Speech Matters
Barnaby Raine
Starmer’s Reboot Speech
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial
Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame
Sophie K Rosa
Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That
James McAsh
Why Should the BBC Licence Fee Fund Britain’s ‘Soft Power’?
Aaron Bastani
Starmer Called Out by Key Ally
Tom Kibasi weighs in on Keir Starmer’s Leadership of the Labour party.
Unfinished Revolutions: How the UK and Gulf Monarchies Helped Crush Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement
David Wearing
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.