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Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

by Charlie Hertzog Young

By forcing people to work through illness, our inadequate sick pay system is a tool of domination, writes Charlie Hertzog Young. Let’s replace it with one that puts people before profit.

Workers on a construction site. Design: Pietro Garrone (Novara Media). Photograph: the apostrophe (Flickr)

Report: How a Trade Union Leader Became Qatar’s Biggest Fan

by Polly Smythe

The International Trade Union Congress is one of Qatar's most strident defenders, despite ongoing concerns about workers' rights in the Gulf state. Polly Smythe reports.

Sir Keir and Victoria Starmer at the Sun Who Cares Wins Awards 2022. John Rainford/Cover Images via Reuters Connect

Report: Keir Starmer Had a Photo-Op at the Telegraph As Part of His Rightwing Media Tour

by Simon Childs

After a week of courting the Times, the Sun and the Spectator, a source told Novara Media the Labour leader posed for photos at the offices of the Telegraph.

Opinion: Insisting Jews Don’t Count Helps Nobody

by Rivkah Brown

By demanding solidarity without offering it, David Baddiel isolates Jews from our natural allies, writes Rivkah Brown.

Cllr Andy Weatherhead at a rally outside the Greek Embassy in 2013 (left) and campaigning for the Conservative party (right). Photo: Hope Not Hate

Report: Tory Councillor Steps Down As Recording Reveals He Was ‘Admirer’ of Fascism

by Simon Childs

Andy Weatherhead claimed he was associated with a fascist group ‘in the spirit of education and curiosity’, but in a recording he said, ‘I've always been an admirer of Benito Mussolini and Sir Oswald Mosley’.

Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn win Islington North in 2019

Analysis: Does Jeremy Corbyn Need the Labour Party?

by Ell Folan

A worker talks on a stand during the launch of Adopting Bitcoin – A Lightning Summit in El Salvador, in San Salvador, El Salvador November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Interview: Crypto Was Meant To Be Radical, But It’s Been Taken Over By Wall Street

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Decentralised currencies were intended to circumvent traditional financial markets – instead they’re mirroring them. Why?

Image shows a Greater Manchester Police officer wearing a yellow hi-vis police jacket and black cap standing on a rainy street, with their head bowed.

Analysis: Why Are We Still Pretending This Police Watchdog Is Independent?

by Larry Lock

Families bereaved at the hands of the police are forced to turn to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. But justice is hard to come by when the watchdog is only out to protect its own.

05/05/2022. London, United Kingdom.The Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts the Prime Minister's Business Council with The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, The Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and The Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan. 10 Downing Street. Picture by Tim Hammond / No 10 Downing Street

Analysis: Wow! The Tories Are Planning to ‘Level Up’ Britain Again

by James Morrison

Rishi Sunak’s overtures about ‘levelling up’ the ‘left behinds’ obscures who really needs help.

Report: Tory Councillor Attended Fascist Meetings ‘in the Spirit of Education and Curiosity’

by Simon Childs

Councillor Andy Weatherhead has been suspended after a picture emerged of him wearing a fascist-style blackshirt.

Report: President of Unison Expelled From Labour Party

by Polly Smythe

The union's president has been expelled for sharing articles from a proscribed Marxist group on social media.

Activists of Hindu nationalist group Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) shout slogans during a protest against the killing of seven Hindu pilgrims in a gunbattle that erupted in Kashmir on Monday, in New Delhi, India, July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Analysis: Brace Yourselves for a ‘Hinduphobia’ Moral Panic

by Ash Sarkar

British Indians aren’t switching to the Conservatives because of Hinduphobia – but that won’t stop the nationalist right using the phantom threat to divide minorities.

Analysis: The Tories Are Too Weak to Make Big Cuts Now, So They’ve Pushed Them Into the Future

by James Meadway

The Tories know they are too weak to make unpopular cuts right now, writes James Meadway. But make no mistake, the politics of austerity still shaped the autumn statement.

Opinion: My Stepfather Became My Dad the Day He Took Me to My First Football Match

Football helped Tom Williams build a relationship with his stepfather, pulling him away from the darker side of what it means to ‘be a man’. Breaking down barriers to the game has never been more important, he argues.

Analysis: Could the Rise of Women’s Football Mean Greater Player Power?

by Jessy Parker Humphreys

High-profile women footballers such as Beth Mead and Magda Eriksson have been amongst those most vocally opposed to the Qatar World Cup. Could the growing platform for the women's game lead to greater player power within the sport?

Long Read: ‘Levelling Up’ is Encouraging Gulf States to Buy Northern Football Clubs

by Ali Reda & Philip Proudfoot

The Tories have welcomed oil sheikdoms buying up football clubs in England’s cash-strapped post-industrial north as part of their ‘levelling up’ agenda. Philip Proudfoot and Ali Reda explain.

A man in a wheelchair takes part in a protest against cuts to state disability welfare payments. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

Feature: Disabled People Are Fighting Back Against ‘Life or Death’ Energy Prices

by Sophie K Rosa

Disabled people are facing disproportionate fuel poverty, but they're getting organised. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Opinion: Should We Boycott the Qatar World Cup?

by Keir Milburn & Tom Williams

Around 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since the country won its bid to host the World Cup. Should we be boycotting this year’s tournament?

Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

by Charlie Hertzog Young

Report: How a Trade Union Leader Became Qatar’s Biggest Fan

by Polly Smythe

Report: Keir Starmer Had a Photo-Op at the Telegraph As Part of His Rightwing Media Tour

by Simon Childs

Opinion: Insisting Jews Don’t Count Helps Nobody

by Rivkah Brown

Report: Tory Councillor Steps Down As Recording Reveals He Was ‘Admirer’ of Fascism

by Simon Childs

Analysis: Does Jeremy Corbyn Need the Labour Party?

by Ell Folan

Interview: Crypto Was Meant To Be Radical, But It’s Been Taken Over By Wall Street

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Analysis: Why Are We Still Pretending This Police Watchdog Is Independent?

by Larry Lock

Analysis: Wow! The Tories Are Planning to ‘Level Up’ Britain Again

by James Morrison

Report: Tory Councillor Attended Fascist Meetings ‘in the Spirit of Education and Curiosity’

by Simon Childs

Report: President of Unison Expelled From Labour Party

by Polly Smythe

Analysis: Brace Yourselves for a ‘Hinduphobia’ Moral Panic

by Ash Sarkar

Analysis: The Tories Are Too Weak to Make Big Cuts Now, So They’ve Pushed Them Into the Future

by James Meadway

Opinion: My Stepfather Became My Dad the Day He Took Me to My First Football Match

by Tom Williams

Analysis: Could the Rise of Women’s Football Mean Greater Player Power?

by Jessy Parker Humphreys

Long Read: ‘Levelling Up’ is Encouraging Gulf States to Buy Northern Football Clubs

by Ali Reda & Philip Proudfoot

Feature: Disabled People Are Fighting Back Against ‘Life or Death’ Energy Prices

by Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: Should We Boycott the Qatar World Cup?

by Keir Milburn & Tom Williams