Feature: Drag Queens Are the Latest Target for Homophobic Culture Warriors
Simon Childs & John Lubbock
How British reactionaries followed the US far right to attack drag queens reading stories for children.
Articles
Feature: Charities Are Taking Over NHS Drug Clinics and Patients Are Terrified
Daisy Schofield
A drug clinic is set to close after 56 years as a wave of outsourcing sweeps the NHS. Service users told Daisy Schofield they fear for their lives.
Analysis: Jeremy Hunt Is Desperate to Ditch the Energy Price Cap. Too Bad His Own Voters Need It
Ell Folan
Last week chancellor Jeremy Hunt was again forced to U-turn on lifting the energy price cap. Try as they might to ditch it, necessity has bound the Tories to the policy, writes Ell Folan.
Feature: After Deflating Thousands of Tyres, Eco-Saboteurs Are Thinking Up New Ways to Tackle SUVs
Clare Hymer
Since March 2022, guerrilla climate activists have deflated over 10,000 SUV tyres across 15 countries. We went out with the Tyre Extinguishers in Bristol to find out what eco-saboteurs might do next.
Opinion: Neoliberal Politicians Are Destroying Glasgow
Jonathon Shafi
Privatisation-loving council leader Susan Aitken once partnered with McDonald's to organise volunteer-run clean-ups as she slashed refuse collection budgets. Now she's charging locals £50 to have their garden waste collected. Jonathon Shafi on the crisis unfolding in Glasgow.
Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right
Charlotte England
A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.
Opinion: How Westminster Hid Scotland’s Wealth From Its People
Laura Webster
49 years ago, Westminster buried a report on Scotland’s abundant natural resources to suppress growing support for Scottish independence. Laura Webster discusses the consequences.
Feature: How a Cumbrian Community is Building Working Class Confidence
Craig Gent
The cost of living crisis is only compounding crises of poverty and mental health nationwide. But one community in Barrow-in-Furness is pulling together.
Analysis: No, Gen Z Don’t Just Care About ‘Identity Politics’
Keir Milburn
Gen Z is more pro-union and pro-strike than any generation before them. That’s an opportunity not just for bridging divides within ‘generation left’, but generational divides too, argues Keir Milburn.
Feature: What We Learned at the Latest Round of the Spycops Inquiry
Polly Smythe
Spycops may have sent information to blacklisters and they hated democratic accountability.
Opinion: The Media is Biased Against the Left – And the Right
Aaron Bastani
While rightwing billionaires control Britain’s print press, the broadcast media is stuffed with Blairites, writes Aaron Bastani.
Report: Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes
Andrew Kersley
Exclusive: S&K property enforcement is showing up to homes wearing outfits that look like police uniforms.
Opinion: Ukraine’s Resistance Still Needs Our Solidarity
Nadia Whittome
The left has a long record of opposing violent occupations. One year on from Russia’s invasion, we must stand with the Ukrainian people, argues Nadia Whittome.
Report: Trade Union Leader Dismissed Following Report Into Sexual Harassment
Polly Smythe
The retirement of disgraced former TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes was announced months ago. So why has he just been dismissed? Polly Smythe reports.
Feature: White and Hindu Supremacists Are a Match Made in Heaven
Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Tommy Robinson’s Hindutva rant has cemented an alliance long in the making, writes Amardeep Singh Dhillon.
Report: Trade Union Accused of Sitting on Report Into ‘Toxic’ Culture
Polly Smythe
Staff at the TSSA told Novara Media how the union tried to ‘buy time’ before the report into bullying and sexual harassment came out.
Opinion: Let’s Stop Pretending London is a 24/7 City
Moya Lothian-McLean
London’s nightlife has long been outstripped by northern cities. But with rising rents and more and more venue-threatening housing developments, could a similar fate befall them?
Analysis: Who is the Rewilding Movement’s Green Utopia For?
Maozya Murray
‘Rewilding’ - the process of restoring wilderness areas - is flavour of the month. But at its worst, it's creating more problems than it solves, argues Maozya Murray.