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Mad Youth Organise protest outside Priory Roehampton.

Private Mental Health Clinics Are Fleecing the NHS – And ‘Making Patients Madder’
Harriet Williamson

The Priory Group receives over £2bn a year from UK taxpayers – and for what? Harriet Williamson reports on force-feeding, untrained agency staff, criminal safety failures and the ‘mad’ youth activists who aren’t having it any more.
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Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government

Simon Childs
He said the quiet part loud.

Labour Delays Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Law Ahead of Austerity 2.0

Polly Smythe
How convenient.

No Justice, No Peas: Inside the Toby Carvery Union Drive

Polly Smythe
Unionising is a joint effort.
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Warehouse Workers Are Too Tired to See a Way Out

Juliet Jacques
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‘We’re Witnessing the Last Gasp of Israeli Violence’: In Conversation With Avi Shlaim

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Professor Avi Shlaim
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What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff
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Revealed: How Priti Patel Influenced Anti-Terror Cops Over Palestine Protests

Former home secretary Priti Patel in Westminster. Image: REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Solomon Hughes
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Police Spent £3m Arresting Climate Activists During Far-Right Riots

Simon Childs
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Buy-to-Let Landlords Are Dodging Tax En Masse

Harriet Williamson
Report

UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims

Simon Childs
A banner is burned in protest outside Drax power station in North Yorkshire. Image: Axe Drax
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Geoengineering Is Coming Whether We Like It or Not
Richard Hames Meets Laurie Laybourn

Time to start cooling down the planet?
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The British Military Is Actively Involved in Gaza. Here’s How.

Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard

Where does the increase in money for ‘defence’ actually get spent?

Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like?

Eleanor Penny meets Jodi Dean

It’s time for a class struggle led by service workers.

We Have to Break up With the USA

Aaron Bastani meets Angus Hanton

Britain is at a crucial crossroads.

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EXCLUSIVE: NHS Billions Spent on Degrading Private Treatment
Novara Media investigates private mental healthcare provider Priory Group. Plus: Labour MPs are struggling to defend their party’s new programme of austerity; and why the EU is so afraid to stand up to Donald Trump. With Dalia Gebrial, Harriet Williamson, David Rowlands and NoJusticeMTG.
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Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Beaten and Kidnapped

US Envoy Admits Putin Loves Trump to Tucker Carlson

Israel Ramps up Ground Invasion of Gaza

Netanyahu Wants a War in the West Bank

19 March 2025

Labour Condemned Over Brutal Welfare Cuts

18 March 2025

Netanyahu Shatters Gaza Ceasefire: Israeli Strikes Kill Over 400

17 March 2025

Keir Starmer Could Face Revolt Over Benefit Cuts

14 March 2025

Zelenskyy Accuses Putin of Delaying Ceasefire

13 March 2025

Keir Starmer to Abolish NHS England

12 March 2025

Donald Trump Declares International Trade War W/ Grace Blakeley

11 March 2025

Drone Attack on Moscow As US-Ukraine Peace Talks Begin

10 March 2025

Israel Cuts Off Electricity to Gaza

7 March 2025

Russia Launches Huge Missile & Drone Attack on Ukraine

6 March 2025

Europe: “We’re Stronger Than Russia”

5 March 2025

US Cuts Off ALL Intelligence Support to Ukraine

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Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle?

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The Absurdity of Rearmament

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Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?

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What’s the Point in Art When the World Is on Fire?

The author of Acts of Resistance makes the case for creativity in a crisis.

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How Does Sovereign Debt Work?

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26 January 2025

Trip 49: Debt

From easy credit to debt jubilees, what does it means to owe and be owed? The ACFM gang find out.
3 January 2025

Reading the Communist Manifesto

The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of Marx and Engels’ endlessly quotable 1848 tract.
8 December 2024

Trip 48: Political Commitment

The ACFM gang ask what it means to dedicate yourself to a cause, with ideas from Jodi Dean and Leonard Cohen.

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The British Military Is Actively Involved in Gaza. Here’s How.
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Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong. Aaron Bastani meets Josephine Quinn
Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished. Aaron Bastani talks to Philip Pilkington
This Is Why the Right Are Winning. Aaron Bastani talks to Ash Sarkar
Elon Musk Wants to Be Napoleon. Ash Sarkar meets William Davies

UK

Long Read
Mad Youth Organise protest outside Priory Roehampton.
Private Mental Health Clinics Are Fleecing the NHS - And ‘Making Patients Madder’
Warehouse Workers Are Too Tired to See a Way Out
What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

World

Downstream
The British Military Is Actively Involved in Gaza. Here’s How.
‘We’re Witnessing the Last Gasp of Israeli Violence’: In Conversation With Avi Shlaim
We Have to Break up With the USA

Labour Party

Downstream
Europe's Political Elite Are Completely Finished
This Is Why the Right Are Winning
UN Official Slams David Lammy's Refusal to Call Gaza a Genocide

Organised Labour

Analysis
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds. Image: Official portrait
Labour Delays Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Law Ahead of Austerity 2.0
No Justice, No Peas: Inside the Toby Carvery Union Drive
Taken for a Ride: Inside Uber’s New Race to the Bottom

Conservative Party

Report
Former home secretary Priti Patel in Westminster. Image: REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Revealed: How Priti Patel Influenced Anti-Terror Cops Over Palestine Protests
Tory Councillor Accused of Smearing Teenager As Antisemite for Palestine Petition
2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke

Politics

If I Speak
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The Real Reason Behind Starmer's Military Spending Drive
The Pro-Palestine Activists Imprisoned for Months Without Being Found Guilty of Any Crime

Economics

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Why Don't We Have Any Hope?
BP’s Climate Backtrack Is an Admission It Has Failed
Elon Musk Wants to Be Napoleon

Environment

Report
A banner is burned in protest outside Drax power station in North Yorkshire. Image: Axe Drax
UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims
Should We Stop Paying Our Water Bills?
Climate Prisoners Are Exposing the Dire State of Prison Healthcare

Policing

Report
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
The ICJ’s New Acting President Is a Christian Zionist. What Does That Mean for Israel?
The Government’s Anti-Democracy Tsar Finally Got Sacked, but Protest Is Still Under Threat

Housing

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Buy-to-Let Landlords Are Dodging Tax En Masse
Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are
Can a Bunch of Tech Nerds Solve the Housing Crisis?

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Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like?
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Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong
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Two men in suits stand next to one another looking stern
No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice
The Billionaire Landlord Battling a Beloved London Cinema
49: We Need to See More Wrinkles on Screen!

Culture

ACFM
What's the Point in Art When the World Is on Fire?
How the Pro-Israel Right Used Identity Politics to Crush Palestine Solidarity
Mumford and Sons-Owned Bar Was Set to Host Far-Right Afterparty

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