After 2010 British politics was shaped by one idea above all others: austerity. We were told that there wasn’t enough money to pay for EMA, university fees, council housing or even the existing range of benefits. And yet the government’s response to Covid-19 demonstrates the extent to which that was a political choice rather than […]
Ten years ago this week the Arab uprisings arrived in Syria, with large demonstrations marking the culmination of weeks of brewing unrest. In the fifth piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the attempted revolution in Syria became a full-blown war.
The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]
After the police violently shut down a vigil for Sarah Everard, many people have had their eyes opened to the horrors of state brutality for the first time. If the left is serious about building power, we shouldn't dismiss these people for being late to the party, argues Chardine Taylor-Stone.
After a vigil for Sarah Everard was violently shut down by police, protestors came to Westminster to grieve and to resist overreaching police power. Rivkah Brown reports.
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