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Analysis: The Panic Around ‘County Lines’ Is Legitimising Expanded Policing Powers

Lauren E Wroe

In the name of 'safeguarding' children, the Home Office has just rebranded old anti-gang policies that overwhelmingly criminalise young people from minoritised communities.

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Analysis: London’s Arts Scene Has Been Captured By Corporate Culture

Sam Bright

The failure to ‘level up’ has left London an island. Now, its rich culture being crushed by a soulless commercial elite.

Analysis: Sheku Bayoh’s Death Shows Scotland Is No Progressive Haven

Jonathon Shafi

A public inquiry has finally opened into whether race was a factor in the killing of Sheku Bayoh in police custody. But whatever the outcome, his treatment in death is a harsh wake up call.

The West Bank is on the Brink of Collapse

Jehad Abusalim

Israel is ramping up its assault on the West Bank - but Palestinians won’t rest until they get dignity, writes Jehad Abusalim.

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Trust Me, Private Healthcare is a Shitshow

Luke Savage

America spends more money on a worse system that voters hate, writes Luke Savage. So why are UK politicians pretending privatisation will fix the NHS?

Gambling Firms Prey on the Working Class. Why is Labour Taking Their Money?

Matt Zarb-Cousin

New revelations show just how close Labour’s front bench is to the gambling industry. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, argues Matt Zarb-Cousin.

Yes, Women Fear Rape – But We Live Our Lives Anyway

Ash Sarkar

Sainsbury’s has pulled a clothing ad which was slammed for saying women “stroll after dark”. But we do, of course - and that’s not reckless or unreasonable, argues Ash Sarkar.

Britain’s Media Gatekeepers Are No Match for America’s

Aaron Bastani

With the success of his memoir Spare, Prince Harry has offered a blueprint for how others can circumvent the British media: go West.

NHS nurses march during a strike over pay in December. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

The Tory Anti-Strike Laws Are About Disciplining the Working Class

Charles Umney and Ian Greer

Cracking down on strikes won't work, but it's a short term way for the government to show the market that workers can be marshalled to make bigger profits.

What Are Working People Supposed to Wear?

Chal Ravens

When you tell someone they shouldn’t wear a nice, warm, moderately expensive coat to a picket line, what you’re really saying is that nothing can improve and everyone must suffer. We must resist this stupidity, argues Chal Ravens.

God, Will Prince Harry Shut Up?

Moya Lothian-McLean

Harry’s objection to the monarchy is not - shock! - based on anti-imperialist principles, but a deep hurt that he was prevented from participating in the institution the way he wanted, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Scotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon attends a news conference, in Edinburgh

Analysis: 2023 Will Be Make Or Break For The Scottish Independence Movement

Jonathon Shafi

It’s official: there will be no Scottish independence without the UK’s say-so. The judgement has forced Scottish politics out of its stupor – but perhaps also into a crisis, writes columnist Jonathon Shafi.

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Flat SUV Tyres and Soupy Van Goghs: 2022 Was a Vintage Year for Climate Protest

Clare Hymer

The government's insatiable protest crackdown has forced climate activists to get creative this year, writes Clare Hymer.

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Socialists, in 2023 Read More Fiction

Aaron Bastani

It’s impossible to respond to the challenges of the 21st century without literature, writes Aaron Bastani.

The Most Pointless Twitter Discourses Of 2022

Moya Lothian-McLean

For all the complaints of Twitter’s early death, a hell of a lot of us have remained sadly logged on.

Travelling Across Poland Showed Me That Britain’s Economy Is Broken

Aaron Bastani

The UK is increasingly just a middle-income country with a smattering of rich people. Visit anywhere else in Europe and you’ll see what I mean, writes Aaron Bastani.

No, School Isn’t Making Kids ‘Woke’

Aaron Bastani

Young people aren’t more leftwing because they’re being brainwashed at school. They’re more leftwing because they’ve lived under neoliberalism, writes Aaron Bastani.

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Are The Royals ‘Anti-Racist’ Now?

Moya Lothian-McLean

A recent incident at the palace has seen the royal household make a rare admission of racism in its ranks. But individual efforts will never make up for what the institution of monarchy embodies, writes Moya Lothian-McLean.

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