Opinion: 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.
Articles
Long Read: Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Carceral approaches to mental healthcare are on the rise in Britain. This should worry us all, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.
Report: Wait, Are We on Energy Bill Strike Now?
Charlotte England
As energy costs spiral, providers are brutally targeting defaulters. But attempts to organise mass resistance have faltered. Charlotte England reports.
Opinion: 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.
Report: Labour Backs Plan to Use Army to Break NHS Strikes
Polly Smythe
Badly paid soldiers could be used to scab on striking nurses, and Labour thinks this is a good idea.
Report: An Energy Company Broke Into This Family’s Home And Cut Off Their Heating
Sophie K Rosa
Exclusive: An energy company broke into a south London family's home and left them without hot water and heating, as snowstorms hit the capital.
Report: Trade Union General Secretary Accused of Taking Qatari Bribes to Ignore Human Rights Abuses
Polly Smythe
As the world slams Qatar’s human rights abuses, the ITUC has stood by the Gulf state. Belgian prosecutors smell a rat. Polly Smythe reports.
Report: Meet the Activists Arming Leftists on Ukraine’s Frontlines
Volodya Vagner
Anarchists and antifascists are gathering military aid to sustain their comrades on Ukraine’s frontlines. Volodya Vagner reports from Kyiv.
Feature: Northern Irish People Can’t Come Home For Christmas
Róisín Lanigan
It’s now easier – and cheaper – to travel from Britain to the Republic of Ireland than somewhere that's supposedly part of the same country – but Unionist politicians don't seem concerned.
Report: Mick Lynch: ‘Corruption’ is to Blame for Lack of Progress in Rail Dispute
Simon Childs
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch described the most recent offer to railway workers as like being slapped around the face with a fish.
Report: Qatar Schmoozed These MPs. Now They’re Silent on Human Rights
Andrew Kersley
The chair of a parliamentary group that Qatar spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on has defended the country's workers' rights record and said nothing about LGBT+ rights.
Opinion: 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.
Report: Royal Mail is Using an App to Try and Break the Posties’ Strike
Polly Smythe
Ryde is offering scab shifts on strike dates, Polly Smythe reports.
Report: Chinese Students Are At The Forefront Of Anti-Lockdown Protests
Jessie Lau
Since president Xi Jinping took power in 2012, activism has been constricted. For many young people, recent mass protests are their first taste of dissent.
Feature: Students Are Occupying Schools and Universities in Protest at Climate Chaos
Clare Hymer & Sam Knights
It’s been four years since striking students forced the climate crisis onto the global agenda. Now, they’re trying a new strategy. Clare Hymer and Sam Knights report.
Report: ‘Fuck Foxtons’: Londoners Demand Rent Freeze Now
Rivkah Brown
On Saturday, hundreds of London Renters Union members mobilised to demand a nationwide rent freeze. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Monaco-Based Investment Firm Evicts Squatted Homeless Shelter
Sophie K Rosa
Squatters who turned an abandoned south London building into a homeless shelter have been booted out by Picasso Investments Corporation, which is registered in a tax haven.
Report: Harrods is One of the First Companies to Use a New Tory Anti-Strike Law
Simon Childs
The Qatar-owned luxury department store pays its boss £2.3million, but offered security guards a 'pay cut dressed up as a rise'.