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The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How

Rivkah Brown & Simon Childs

The recent proscription of Palestine Action has blindsided many who thought terrorism meant suicide bombers and knife attackers. In fact, counter-terror legislation has been broadening for decades, write Rivkah Brown and Simon Childs.

4,000 People Tried to March From Egypt to Gaza. It Was Egypt, Not Israel, That Stopped Them

Tobiah Palm

In mid-June, thousands of activists from over 80 countries set out from El Arish for Rafah - only to be kettled, beaten and dragged back to Cairo by police. The ill-fated protest has highlighted Egypt’s role in enforcing the blockade of Gaza. Tobiah Palm recounts it.

adhd woman

Is the ‘Uber of Psychiatry’ Actually Helping People?

John Lubbock

Psychiatry UK’s income has more than doubled in the last year, while patients report being summarily dropped from its services, writes John Lubbock. Is for-profit, on-demand mental healthcare what patients need?

Viktor Erik Emanuel performs at Kings Place. Photo: Kings Place

A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won

Simon Childs

London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.

A youth with a scarf in Palestinian colours takes part in a protest in Majd al-Krum, northern Israel, October 2019. Ammar Awad/Reuters

Israeli Citizenship Doesn’t Protect Palestinians From Home Demolitions

Julian Sayarer

A Palestinian neighbourhood in Galilee facing demolition dismantles the myth that Israel is a democracy, writes Julian Sayarer.

What’s It Like to Love a Political Prisoner?

Clare Hymer

Just Stop Oil’s jailed activists were willing to pay the price for their actions. But what does their imprisonment mean for their partners? Clare Hymer reports.

Andrea Jenkyns speaks during Reform's local elections campaign launch in Birmingham, March 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun

Tories, Trolls and Tommy Robinson Fans: Meet Reform’s Top Local Candidates

Simon Childs

Reform is riding high in the polls in spite of the views of some of its candidates.

Liz Kendall looks evil

Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Labour’s ‘biggest fraud crackdown in a generation’ involves using artificial intelligence to surveil Britain’s most vulnerable people, while letting the rich and powerful do as they please.

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

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.

A roast. Image: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

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.

Property tycoon Asif Aziz

The Billionaire Landlord Battling a Beloved London Cinema

John Lubbock & Daisy Steinhardt

Property mogul Asif Aziz prefers to be known for his philanthropy, but one of his companies stands accused of targeting a treasured community asset, not for the first time. John Lubbock and Daisy Steinhardt report.

A man in a suit sits besides a lawyer in a wig. In front of them both is a placard with the world "Israel"

We Asked Legal Experts: Is 2025 the Year Israel Faces Justice?

Nadine Talaat

From the ICJ’s plausible genocide ruling to the ICC issuing arrest warrants, last year the wheels of justice began to move against Israel. Nadine Talaat asks legal experts whether 2025 could finally end its decades-long impunity.

David Lammy sits in front of a Christmas tree

Novara Media’s Losers of the Year 2024

Simon Childs

From graceless losers to pathetic fence-sitters, here are the public servants who made Britain what it was in 2024.

Tony Blair laughing

How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

While Suella Braverman and Priti Patel are remembered as the spearheads of the protest crackdown, writes Francesca Newton, it was Tony Blair who kicked it into a whole new gear.

A head shot of activist Ellen Clifford outside the royal courts of justice.

Meet the Disabled Activist Taking the UK Government to Court

Harriet Williamson

Ellen Clifford is fighting Keir Starmer's government in the high court to prevent disability benefit cuts. She speaks to Harriet Williamson about the value of disabled life under capitalism, assisted dying and why disabled people threaten the status quo.

Service Work Is Joyless at Christmas – And Online Deliveries Are Making It Worse

Polly Smythe

Retail and hospitality workers are told to be even more cheerful during the festive season - which is also their least favourite time of year.

Sir John Hall takes over as chairman of Newcastle United after his son faced sleaze allegations. Reuters

Meet the Super-Rich Property Mogul Who Just Got Made Reform UK’s New ‘Life President’

Simon Childs

Sir John Hall, once dubbed ‘King of the Geordies,’ has been made ‘North East Life President’ of Reform UK after making a reportedly ‘vast’ donation.

This ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ Boyband Is Whitewashing Apartheid

Ed Gillett

The brainchild of two LA music execs, the six-piece group featuring Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel started recording together the day before 7 October. Is as1one an earnest attempt at musical coexistence, or something more sinister ? Ed Gillett reports.

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