Novara Live: David Cameron Investigated Over Greensill Scandal
The government have announced an independent review into David Cameron and the Greensill affair. Is another white-wash incoming?
Report: A Filipino Nurse Is Being Evicted for Having a Less “Durable Connection With the Area” Than Her Landlord’s Daughter
Rivkah Brown
EXCLUSIVE: The care home nurse and her two sons are the latest victims of a state that recently declared itself racism-free.
Novara Live: Northern Ireland Sees Riots From Loyalists
After a week of violence in Northern Ireland, we speak to Amanda Ferguson about the events that led to unrest among loyalist communities.
Analysis: Police Brutality: How Protesters Resist State Violence Around the World
Charlotte England
Novara Media spoke to those organising against police violence in Myanmar, Greece, Palestine, Nigeria, Chile, Colombia and the United States about what they’re up against, their tips and strategies, and the advice they have for protesters facing police brutality in the UK.
Feature: Changing Attitudes to Death Could Help Us Create a Fairer Society
Sophie K Rosa
Coronavirus has changed the way we grieve and forced more people to confront the reality of death. Is this an opportunity to radically transform our relationship to mortality? Sophie K Rosa reports.
The Bastani Factor: Will Amazon Fresh Kill the High Street? | the Bastani Factor
Amazon already dominates online retail, but is it set to take over the high street? Last month, Jeff Bezos’ trillion-dollar company opened the UK’s first Amazon Fresh store, stocked with own brand groceries, including milk and meat, and cashiers replaced by an entirely automated process. Aaron Bastani visited the store in Ealing, West London, to […]
Novara Live: What Are the AstraZeneca Blood Clot Risks?
The JCVI have announced that under 30s should be offered an alternative to the Astra Zeneca vaccine. What does this mean for the vaccine rollout, and for young people who’ve already had the AZ jab? With Michael Walker, Deenan Pillay and Dalia Gebrial.
Downstream: Why the Tories Keep Winning. Interview With Sam Earle
Excluding Tony Blair’s back-to-back victories, the Conservative Party has governed the UK for all but 18 of the last 100 years. While the media often presents elections as Labour’s to lose, the truth is that Britain is a one party state which occasionally lets the other side have a go in the interest of fairness. […]
Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That
James Meadway
A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.
Opinion: Gypsies and Travellers Are Under Attack – And So Are Our Collective Freedoms
Jake Bowers
From Priti Patel's police bill to a racist local Labour leaflet, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are facing attacks from all sides. If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind, writes Jake Bowers.
Novara Live: Johnson Announces Vaccine Passports for Major Events
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 15: Folk
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert dig into the politics of folk, from island cults to progressive patriotism.
Opinion: Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?
Samuel Earle
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer share a willingness to forgo principles in order to win votes. In the second piece of a new series on the Tories and how they hold on to power, Samuel Earle explains why this strategy is working for one but not the other.
Novara Live: A Year of Keir
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani assess Keir Starmer's first year as Labour leader.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: What’s the Future of the Arab Uprisings?
David Wearing
It is impossible to avoid the sense of epic tragedy that hangs over the Arab uprisings today, a decade on. But in the final piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing argues that the story isn’t over yet.
Opinion: Define, Divide and Rule: The Race Report Shows the State is Not Interested in Racial Liberation
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
The race report fundamentally misunderstands racism - telling us it is interpersonal, rather than structural, and denying the role of class. This is no accident, writes Annie Olaloku-Teriba – in doing so it seeks to further an agenda as old as colonialism.
Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
Labour’s complicity with police savagery is an insult to Bristolians, one they are unlikely to forget come 6 May, writes Bristol student and Labour activist Anna Lart Greene.
Analysis: The Suez Canal Block Told Us a Lot About Capitalism and Sovereignty
Aaron Bastani
The Ever Given is free, but the brief Suez crisis demonstrated how deeply interconnected our world is. Europe and North America would never have said the blockage was an issue for Egypt to resolve alone - after all the implications were global in extent. So why are climate change, displaced peoples, pandemics and public health any different?