Like All Digital Parties, the Northern Independence Party Is a Reflection of Our Broken Politics
Paolo Gerbaudo
Starmer will blame the whippet party if Labour loses Hartlepool. He should start by blaming himself for the NIP's existence.
Mayors Are Blairite Nonsense and We Don’t Need Them
Owen Hatherley
More devolution, less mayors.
Labour is Running a Saudi Apologist in Hartlepool – And It Should Be a Scandal
David Wearing
Paul Williams said the Gulf state was ‘modern and progressive’ after going on a trip paid for by the regime.
The Pandemic Has Given Sex Workers a Grim Taste of Criminalisation
Vee H
During lockdown street-based sex workers were shouted at, spat at and reported to the police for seeing clients.
Prince Philip Knew One Important Thing: For Monarchies to Survive, They Must Learn to Adapt
Ash Sarkar
As the maxim goes, “everything must change, for everything to remain the same”.
Gypsies and Travellers Are Under Attack – And So Are Our Collective Freedoms
Jake Bowers
If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind.
Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?
Samuel Earle
A year on from winning the Labour leadership, Starmer has now lost all momentum.
Define, Divide and Rule: The Race Report Shows the State is Not Interested in Racial Liberation
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
The race report deliberately misunderstands racism - telling us it is interpersonal, rather than structural, and denying the role of class.
Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
With local elections weeks away, politicians who pit themselves against their constituents are working on borrowed time.
With Our Right to Protest Under Threat, Collective Struggle Is the Only Way We Can Win
Ilyas Nagdee & Azfar Shafi
In an increasingly atomised world, we must recover the collective to successfully fight back.
Erdogan’s Attempt to Ban Pro-Kurdish Parties Will Only Fuel the Resistance
Rosa Gilbert
The HDP, Labour's sister party in Turkey, faces its most extreme threat to date. But the broad coalition it has convened isn't going anywhere.
You’ve Been Fined by the Police. What Can You Do About It?
David Renton
Police issued 32,000 fixed penalty notices in the first nine months of lockdown. Here’s a lawyer’s advice on what to do if you get one.
Even Without the ‘Vaccine Bounce’, Boris Johnson Would Still Be Winning
Samuel Earle
The pandemic has shown just how much the prime minister is able to get away with.
If Jews Don’t Count As an Ethnic Minority, It’s Because We Haven’t Always Wanted To
Joseph Finlay
Only recently has ethnic minority status become covetable. British Jews have spent much of our history avoiding it.
Rising Unemployment Is Making Us Depressed. But We Are More Than Our Work
Harriet Williamson
We must separate our self-worth from our productivity.
People Are Waking Up to the Horrors of Police Brutality. It’s Time to Build a Movement
Chardine Taylor-Stone
We’re all fighting the same beast – and it’ll take more than a few radicals to kill it.
Being in Prison During Covid-19 Was Hell – but Pandemic or Not, the System Ruins Lives
Sam, as told to Sophie K Rosa
Coronavirus lockdowns meant prisoners were forced to spend almost 24 hours a day in their cells.
Whether or Not a Cop Killed Sarah Everard, the Police Are Complicit in What Happened to Her
Rivkah Brown
This wasn’t just an act of gendered violence. It was one of state violence, too.