From growing food poverty to rising temperatures, our food system threatens both people and planet. In the second piece of a series on isolation, connection and climate breakdown, Adrienne Buller argues it's time to rethink global food production.
With an alleged far-right extremist recently charged with attempting to launch a terror attack at a solicitor’s firm in London, and Priti Patel’s condemnation of ‘activist lawyers’ appearing to have triggered it, solicitor Fahad Ansari argues that such troubling denigrations are part of a long and reckless Tory campaign against legal professionals in the UK.
Following the state-sanctioned massacre of protestors in Nigeria calling for an end to police brutality, Annie Olaloku-Teriba argues that for the #EndSARS movement to succeed, it must go beyond pacifying the middle classes and recognise the relationship between institutional violence and socioeconomic disadvantage.
On Tuesday, following a stand-off, Downing Street imposed a tier 3 lockdown on Greater Manchester without agreeing a support package with local leaders. Aaron Bastani argues the government's contempt for regional defiance is a vestige of Britain’s imperial past.
While some suggest London is powerless in the face of Washington’s demands, the UK can - and does - stand up to the US when it wants to. When Britain accommodates and even actively collaborates with Trump, it can’t be let off the hook, argues David Wearing.
As parts of the country implement stricter coronavirus restrictions, hospitality workers will once again be forced to police their workplaces at an ever increasing personal and professional cost, writes Liv Wynter.
The natural world, some claim, could be saved from destruction if only we established its monetary worth. In the first piece of a new series on isolation, connection and environmental breakdown, Adrienne Buller argues it’s time to free nature from finance.
With the latest round of party apparatchiks sworn into the House of Lords, our political system is becoming more and more inflected by patronage and nepotism. The Lords is a place for political parties, not democracy, argues Aaron Bastani - in fact that, alas, is its point.
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