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Report: Helping White Refugees Gets You £350. Helping Black or Brown Ones Gets You Prison Time

Tiara Ataii

If those crossing the Mediterranean were white, would we criminalise their rescuers? Tiara Ataii doubts it.

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Supermarket price-gouging is pushing millions of Britons toward starvation. The solution is simple, writes Ella Thorold.

LONDON, UK - August 19, 2013. Different To Let property signs in a row in London, UK

Analysis: Landlords Are Getting Off Scot-Free in the Cost of Living Crisis

Ell Folan

From energy prices to tax hikes, everything has been blamed for the cost of living crisis: except profiteering property-owners, writes Ell Folan.

Analysis: The Tories Aren’t Banning Conversion Therapy

VS Wells

The conversion therapy ban announced in the Queen’s speech has so many loopholes as to be virtually meaningless, writes VS Wells.

Private First Class Jeremy Bauth, of the Colorado National Guard's 220th Military Police Company, stands guard at a checkpoint during a US National Guard operation in 2018 outside of Fort Greely, Alaska, 28 February 2018. Photo: Specialist Michael Risinge / US Army National Guard

Long Read: The Next World War Could Be Over the Arctic

James Meadway

The Arctic Council is collapsing over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, writes James Meadway, setting the stage for a geopolitical conflict of epic proportions.

Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It

The Iuventa Crew

In 2017, the crew of search and rescue ship Iuventa was arrested by the Italian authorities. As their trial begins, they write about their ordeal.

Image shows workers collecting wheat at the Benha grain silos, in Al Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt

Analysis: Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine

Matteo Tiratelli

The war in Ukraine and climate breakdown have been blamed for a wheat price surge that threatens mass starvation. The truth is that financial speculation and grain-hoarding are to blame, writes Matteo Tiratelli.

05/05/2022. London, United Kingdom.The Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts the Prime Minister's Business Council with The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, The Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and The Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan. 10 Downing Street. Picture by Tim Hammond / No 10 Downing Street

Opinion: Of Course Sunak Says Inflation Can’t Be Fixed. Fixing It Would Mean Taxing Billionaires Like Him

James Meadway

If everyone is paying more for things, but most of us aren’t earning more money, someone is pocketing the difference, writes James Meadway.

Report: ‘I’ll Have to Leave Edinburgh’: Sex Workers’ Fears After the City Bans Strip Clubs

Polly Smythe

Edinburgh city council has imposed a ‘nil-cap’ policy on strip clubs, effectively banning them in the city. Polly Smythe spoke to sex workers about the impact the ban will have on their lives.

Opinion: What the British Media is Missing About the Rise of Sinn Féin

Ciarán O’Rourke

In its analysis of Sinn Féin’s recent success in Northern Ireland, there’s one thing the British media is ignoring, argues Ciarán O’Rourke: the party speaks the language of social democracy.

A line of police officers block the entrance to Ashwin Street in Dalston, north London

Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone

Rivkah Brown

Saturday night’s immigration raid in Dalston, north London is part of a years-long effort to cleanse the area of its brown and Black couriers. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Keir Starmer Doesn’t Trust Ordinary People

Aaron Bastani

Labour’s selection stitch-up in Wakefield shows that Britain's liberal establishment doesn’t trust people to run their own lives, argues Aaron Bastani.

Opinion: Black Internet Spaces Have a Misogyny Problem Too

Martyn Ewoma

Smart, successful men are being encouraged to tie individual achievement to hypermisogyny. Why?

Analysis: Middle Britain is About to Get Monstered By Our Economic Model

Aaron Bastani

The Bank of England is predicting that inflation could hit 10% this year. If so, it'll hit Middle Britain for six, argues Aaron Bastani.

Police officers stop and search a man on a back street in the Brixton neighbourhood of London August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Andrew Winning (BRITAIN)

Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop

UK Cop Watch

The crisis of faith in policing has made many people want to take matters into their own hands. UK Cop Watch advises how.

Report: Central Asia Will Be Collateral Damage in the Ukraine Crisis

Volodya Vagner

With the Russian economy tanking, post-Soviet republics - and the Central Asian migrant workers who sustain them - are in deep trouble. Volodya Vagner reports from Kyrgyzstan.

Analysis: Sinn Féin is Winning at Post-Brexit Politics

Daniel Finn

Sinn Féin now occupies pole position in Northern Irish politics. Daniel Finn explains how we got here.

Interview: A Barrister Explains Why Employment Tribunals Are a New Trans Rights Battlefield

Moya Lothian-McLean

Report: Helping White Refugees Gets You £350. Helping Black or Brown Ones Gets You Prison Time

Tiara Ataii

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Analysis: The Tories Aren’t Banning Conversion Therapy

VS Wells

Long Read: The Next World War Could Be Over the Arctic

James Meadway

Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It

The Iuventa Crew

Analysis: Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine

Matteo Tiratelli

Opinion: Of Course Sunak Says Inflation Can’t Be Fixed. Fixing It Would Mean Taxing Billionaires Like Him

James Meadway

Report: ‘I’ll Have to Leave Edinburgh’: Sex Workers’ Fears After the City Bans Strip Clubs

Polly Smythe

Opinion: What the British Media is Missing About the Rise of Sinn Féin

Ciarán O’Rourke

Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Keir Starmer Doesn’t Trust Ordinary People

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Black Internet Spaces Have a Misogyny Problem Too

Martyn Ewoma

Analysis: Middle Britain is About to Get Monstered By Our Economic Model

Aaron Bastani

Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop

UK Cop Watch

Report: Central Asia Will Be Collateral Damage in the Ukraine Crisis

Volodya Vagner

Analysis: Sinn Féin is Winning at Post-Brexit Politics

Daniel Finn

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Interview: A Barrister Explains Why Employment Tribunals Are a New Trans Rights Battlefield

Moya Lothian-McLean

Report: Helping White Refugees Gets You £350. Helping Black or Brown Ones Gets You Prison Time

Tiara Ataii

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Analysis: Landlords Are Getting Off Scot-Free in the Cost of Living Crisis

Ell Folan

Analysis: The Tories Aren’t Banning Conversion Therapy

VS Wells

Long Read: The Next World War Could Be Over the Arctic

James Meadway

Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It

The Iuventa Crew

Analysis: Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine

Matteo Tiratelli

Opinion: Of Course Sunak Says Inflation Can’t Be Fixed. Fixing It Would Mean Taxing Billionaires Like Him

James Meadway

Report: ‘I’ll Have to Leave Edinburgh’: Sex Workers’ Fears After the City Bans Strip Clubs

Polly Smythe

Opinion: What the British Media is Missing About the Rise of Sinn Féin

Ciarán O’Rourke

Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Keir Starmer Doesn’t Trust Ordinary People

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Black Internet Spaces Have a Misogyny Problem Too

Martyn Ewoma

Analysis: Middle Britain is About to Get Monstered By Our Economic Model

Aaron Bastani

Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop

UK Cop Watch

Report: Central Asia Will Be Collateral Damage in the Ukraine Crisis

Volodya Vagner

Analysis: Sinn Féin is Winning at Post-Brexit Politics

Daniel Finn

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