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Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL (University College London), in London, Britain January 13, 2025, as he prepares to launch a plan to harness AI to spur growth and efficiency in the country. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.

Report: Ten Brits Accused of War Crimes in Gaza, Including Killing Civilians

Harriet Williamson

Legal experts have lodged a landmark report with the Met police, alleging that British citizens have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting with the IDF in Gaza. Harriet Williamson reports.

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Opinion: Banning Le Pen From Running Will Let Her Play the Victim

Richard Hames

A spate of legal challenges preventing politicians from standing in elections exposes the crisis of liberal democracy. The left should be cautious about celebrating when reactionaries get taken down by the courts, argues Richard Hames.

A private hire driver protesting at TfL's offices in Stratford, east London on Wednesday. Image: Courtesy of IWGB

Report: London Uber Drivers Are Drowning in Debt As TfL Delays Renewing Licences

Polly Smythe

Thousands of Uber drivers are unable to work as they wait for new licenses. Some have used up their savings, gone into debt and are facing extreme stress. Polly Smythe reports.

Analysis: Goodbye to Just Stop Oil. Or Is It?

Richard Hames

Just Stop Oil has announced it’s hung up the hi-vis. Richard Hames looks back at three years of road-blocking and soup-throwing and ahead to what’s coming next.

A demonstrator outside Drax power station holds a sign about government subsidies. ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

Report: Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government

Simon Childs

An executive for Drax said the greenwashing power plant has a ‘revolving door’ with the civil service, as its massive lobbying budget is revealed.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds. Image: Official portrait

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

Polly Smythe

The government is backsliding over reforms to Tory anti-strike laws. Perhaps it has something to do with the fresh round of cuts they have planned. Polly Smythe reports.

Mad Youth Organise protest outside Priory Roehampton.

Long Read: Former Priory Patients Tell of ‘Traumatic’ Privatised Mental Health Treatment

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

Polly Smythe

Workers at a branch in Bolton are aiming to become the first at a major pub chain to gain union recognition, but claim they are being met with classic anti-union tactics. Polly Smythe reports.

Interview: Warehouse Workers Are Too Tired to See a Way Out

Juliet Jacques

Director Laura Carreira speaks to Juliet Jacques about the quiet despair of gig economy workers and what a fictional feature can do that a documentary cannot.

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

Sebastian Shehadi

Professor Avi Shlaim speaks to Sebastian Shehadi about his latest book, western complicity in the genocide in Gaza and how Israel’s own archives turned him into an anti-Zionist.

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Ministers have looked at the UK economy in 2025 and concluded that disabled people simply have it too good. Can they be serious? Phil McDuff writes.

Former home secretary Priti Patel in Westminster. Image: REUTERS/Hannah McKay

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

Solomon Hughes

Recently released documents show that the former home secretary shared her ‘deep concern’ over Palestine protests with anti-terror officials - including one who used to work for the arms trade.

An electricity warning sign is seen at the Drax Power station near Selby, Britain. Image: REUTERS/Phil Noble

Report: Police Spent £3m Arresting Climate Activists During Far-Right Riots

Simon Childs

Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media can reveal.

Opinion: Buy-to-Let Landlords Are Dodging Tax En Masse

Harriet Williamson

Buy-to-let firms are now the UK’s biggest single type of business, as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments. Let’s call this what it is: mass tax avoidance by a workshy, parasite class, writes Harriet Williamson.

A banner is burned in protest outside Drax power station in North Yorkshire. Image: Axe Drax

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

Simon Childs

The head of public affairs at Drax raised concerns about the company’s environmental credentials. It cost her her job, an employment tribunal has heard. Simon Childs reports.

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Keir Starmer’s rearmament agenda is not about security - it’s a bid to appease Donald Trump, writes Khem Rogaly.

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

Report: Ten Brits Accused of War Crimes in Gaza, Including Killing Civilians

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Banning Le Pen From Running Will Let Her Play the Victim

Richard Hames

Report: London Uber Drivers Are Drowning in Debt As TfL Delays Renewing Licences

Polly Smythe

Report: Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government

Simon Childs

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

Polly Smythe

Long Read: Former Priory Patients Tell of ‘Traumatic’ Privatised Mental Health Treatment

Harriet Williamson

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

Polly Smythe

Interview: Warehouse Workers Are Too Tired to See a Way Out

Juliet Jacques

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

Sebastian Shehadi

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

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

Solomon Hughes

Report: Police Spent £3m Arresting Climate Activists During Far-Right Riots

Simon Childs

Opinion: 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

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

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Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

Report: Ten Brits Accused of War Crimes in Gaza, Including Killing Civilians

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Banning Le Pen From Running Will Let Her Play the Victim

Richard Hames

Report: London Uber Drivers Are Drowning in Debt As TfL Delays Renewing Licences

Polly Smythe

Analysis: Goodbye to Just Stop Oil. Or Is It?

Richard Hames

Report: Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government

Simon Childs

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

Polly Smythe

Long Read: Former Priory Patients Tell of ‘Traumatic’ Privatised Mental Health Treatment

Harriet Williamson

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

Polly Smythe

Interview: Warehouse Workers Are Too Tired to See a Way Out

Juliet Jacques

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

Sebastian Shehadi

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

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

Solomon Hughes

Report: Police Spent £3m Arresting Climate Activists During Far-Right Riots

Simon Childs

Opinion: 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

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

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