Month: July 2023 | Novara Media

BBC in Unnamed Host Sex Pics Scandal, Labour Say Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

A new lawyer’s statement throws doubt on the Sun’s three day campaign against an unnamed BBC star. Plus: Labour give even more reasons to lower expectations of how transformative an incoming Starmer government would be; and the latest ‘civility in politics’ debate is the most ridiculous one yet. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Opinion

a white man with blonde hair, a navy suit, white shirt and grey tie grimaces at the camera

Why Is Tristram Hunt Afraid of Trans Books?

Vic Parsons

It’s giving Section 28.

Sit Down, Relax, Have a Holiday – Welcome to Being a Landlord

Rivkah Brown attended the National Landlord Investment Show in London where landlords gather to complain about renters and share tips on how to increase their portfolios.

Is It Time for a Universal Basic Income? Aaron Bastani Meets Will Stronge

Most peoples lives are defined by the exchange of labour for a wage – but what if they weren’t? What if the state gave us a regular wage with zero strings attached, to spend as we wish? Proponents of this idea call it ‘Universal Basic Income’. Aaron is joined by Will Stronge, Director of Research […]

Jenrick Is a Tory Villain, Teachers Strike Again in England

Teachers across England have walked out for their seventh nationwide strike action since February. Plus: Johnny Mercer has a terrible time trying to defend the Tories on the NHS; and the BBC apologies for a combative interview with former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Keir Starmer Heckled: “Stop Doing U-Turns!”, Govt Lose Court Case on Covid Inquiry

We speak to the climate activist who heckled Keir Starmer.

Opinion

A man looks at houses for sale in the window of an estate agents

The Housing Boom Replaced Social Democracy. Now We Have Neither

Aaron Bastani

Could rising mortgage rates radicalise even the property-owning middle class?

NHS Facing Collapse for 75th Birthday, Govt Drop Key Climate Pledge

On the 75th anniversary of its founding, the NHS is on its knees. Plus: Sunak’s government have dropped a key climate pledge; Nick Ferrari gets triggered by a pro-Palestine caller. With Michael Walker and Moya Lothian-Mclean.

Rishi Sunak Squirms Before MPs in Committee, Labour Abstain on Anti-BDS Bill

Rishi Sunak has been grilled by MP in a session of the commons liaison committee.

Feature

Climate Camp is Back – And It’s Trying Something New

Douglas Rogers

Ineos, watch out.

Feature

A UVW member outside the Amazon HQ in London. UVW

Precarious, Low-Paid Migrant Workers Are Sick of Low Pay and Bad Conditions

Simon Childs

'Invisible no more.'

Opinion

Stop Begging Big Business to Play Nice

Moya Lothian-McLean

Regulate it, you fools.

Opinion

The Greek Left Had One Chance and Blew It

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

For Alexis Tsipras, the centre could not hold.

Israel Raids West Bank, New Tory Group Have Awful Migration Plan

While Israel launches its biggest incursion into the west bank in twenty years, the UK government are bring an anti-BDS bill to parliament. We speak to Ben Jamal from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

Analysis

Two police officers with backs turned stand either side of another police officer, an older white man, who faces the camera

Stop Sexing Up the Spy Cops Scandal, Say Victims

Rivkah Brown

This is class war, not a cop drama.

Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community. Ash Sarkar Meets Izzy Posen

Izzy Posen grew up in London’s Hasidic Jewish community in Stamford Hill, receiving the bare minimum of secular education in an illegal school which still practiced corporal punishment. Even with the strictures of this insular community, he developed an acute curiosity about the world, resulting in him teaching himself English and eventually leaving the community […]

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