Opinion: The Jubilee Bank Holiday is the Worst Deal in the World
Moya Lothian-McLean
For a nation obsessed with getting a fair deal, rationality flies out the window when it comes to the royals, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.
Foreign Agent: Agents of the State
After Bloody Sunday, Irish Northern Aid sees its power, influence and donations increase drastically – but a raised profile attracts new enemies.
Interview: A Barrister Explains Why Employment Tribunals Are a New Trans Rights Battlefield
Moya Lothian-McLean
Individuals with ‘gender critical’ views have started bringing public cases alleging discrimination at work - against themselves. What’s going on?
Novara Live: Britain’s Racist Windrush Laws, Patel’s Rwanda Ultimatum, Another No10 Party Uncovered
As Priti Patel sends leaflets to asylum seekers warning of imminent deportation to Rwanda, a leaked Home Office report has admitted UK migration policy is steeped in racism. We speak to immigration barrister Zehrah Hasan. Plus: Starmer gets called out by the boss of the RMT; Liverpool fans are attacked by french police; and Carrie […]
Downstream: 21st Century Child Homelessness in New York City. Ash Sarkar Meets Andrea Elliot
In 2012 a New York Times journalist met 11 year old Dasani Coates. Over the next 8 years the journalist followed Dasani and her family as they navigated social services, the cascade of generational trauma and the attention of a New York City Mayor. Ash Sarkar meets Andrea Elliott author of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.
Novara Live: Sunak’s Giant U-turn, Johnson Rigs the Rules, Monbiot Shocks BBC Panel
Rishi Sunak’s belated cost-of-living package has been welcomed by Labour. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Tonight on #TyskySour we ask chief executive of the New Econimcs Foundation Miatta Fahnbulleh. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Report: Helping White Refugees Gets You £350. Helping Black or Brown Ones Gets You Prison Time
Tiara Ataii
If those crossing the Mediterranean were white, would we criminalise their rescuers? Tiara Ataii doubts it.
Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?
Ella Thorold
Supermarket price-gouging is pushing millions of Britons toward starvation. The solution is simple, writes Ella Thorold.
Novara Live: Sue Gray Report Lands, Kuenssberg’s Panorama Doc
The Sue Gray report reveals a culture in Downing Street of rule-breaking, cover-ups, and disrespect towards lower paid staff.
Analysis: Landlords Are Getting Off Scot-Free in the Cost of Living Crisis
Ell Folan
From energy prices to tax hikes, everything has been blamed for the cost of living crisis: except profiteering property-owners, writes Ell Folan.
Analysis: The Tories Aren’t Banning Conversion Therapy
VS Wells
The conversion therapy ban announced in the Queen’s speech has so many loopholes as to be virtually meaningless, writes VS Wells.
Foreign Agent: The New World and the Old Country
In episode two, Michael Flannery's journey from Tipperary to New York City uncovers the roots of anti-colonial struggle in Ireland.
Foreign Agent: The American Front
When six suitcases full of guns are discovered on an Irish dock in 1971, suspicion falls on an Irish American organisation known as Noraid. The first in a six-part series.
Long Read: The Next World War Could Be Over the Arctic
James Meadway
The Arctic Council is collapsing over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, writes James Meadway, setting the stage for a geopolitical conflict of epic proportions.
Novara Live: PartyGate Photos Leaked, Johnson’s Nasty Advisors, Australia’s New PM
After the police cleared Boris Johnson of all but one rule breach, photos have emerged of the PM drinking booze at a separate gathering during lockdown. How have the Met let him get away with it? Plus: Australia has a new PM and the Tories are still all over the place on an energy company windfall tax.
Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It
The Iuventa Crew
In 2017, the crew of search and rescue ship Iuventa was arrested by the Italian authorities. As their trial begins, they write about their ordeal.
Downstream: What Does It Mean to Be Free? Aaron Bastani Meets Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi's life is awash with instances which makes one question what it means to be free. From Hoxha's Albania to The London School of Economics, Ypi's life—as evoked in her book, is an incredible way to explore the connection between the personal and political.
ACFM: Trip 24: Technology
Is technology a fundamental aspect of being human? On this wide-ranging Trip, the gang take on one of their biggest topics yet.