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Opinion: Universal Credit Is a Symptom of Britain’s Broken Jobs Market

Andrew Fisher

Boris Johnson seems to think that cutting the £20 uplift to universal credit will enable him to create high-paid jobs, writes Andrew Fisher. He's living, as Adam Curtis would say, in a dream world.

Opinion: Changing Your Mind is Good, Actually

Rachel Connolly

There’s something liberating about seeing your views as changeable rather than as an extension of yourself, writes Rachel Connolly.

Opinion: England’s Football Team is Changing Because England is Changing

David Wearing

This year's England squad are defiantly anti-racist and pro-LGBT. The left should be encouraged, writes David Wearing: it's a sign that slowly, step by step, struggles to expand the collective 'we' are being won from the ground up.

Dalian Atkinson playing football

Opinion: The Cop Who Killed Dalian Atkinson is in Prison – But That Doesn’t Fix Our Justice System

Moya Lothian-McLean

Why has the conviction of the officer who killed Dalian Atkinson received such a tepid response? Because ending systemic racism will mean rethinking our very idea of justice, writes Moya Lothian-Mclean.

Harry Kane takes a knee

Opinion: This Year’s England Squad Actually Gives a Shit

Jessy Parker Humphreys

There's a lot to celebrate about the England team, but their Englishness has nothing to do with it, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys. These are the most politically engaged players the country has ever seen.

Home secretary Priti Patel smiling against the backdrop of a UK flag

Opinion: Priti Patel Isn’t Shipping Refugees to Rwanda Any Time Soon

Nadia Hasan

The home secretary’s latest scheme to scare off asylum seekers? Send them 6,500 miles away. It isn’t going to happen - but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried.

Keir Starmer and Kim Leadbeater

Opinion: Labour Won Batley and Spen Despite Starmer, Not Because of Him

Aaron Bastani

Kim Leadbeater prevailed through a mix of localist populism and anti-party politics. ‘Brand Keir’ had nothing to do with it, writes Aaron Bastani.

Keir Starmer walks through Whitehall

Analysis: With Labour Barely Holding Batley and Spen, Is It Time for Starmer to Quit?

Ell Folan

While Labour's Batley and Spen win is no doubt a reprieve for Keir Starmer, every result and every approval rating is telling us one thing: he is unelectable, writes Ell Folan.

An eviction resistance in north London

Report: An Eviction Crisis Looms. Can Renters Resist It?

Eloise Barry

A month after the eviction ban ended, renters’ unions are all that stand between some tenants and homelessness. Eloise Barry reports.

A protest against the criminalisation of sex work.

Opinion: Scrapping Britain’s First Red Light District Will Be a Disaster for Sex Workers

Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy

Leeds city council plans to close the ‘managed zone’ in Holbeck, where sex work has been permitted since 2014. It’s a decision that puts the pearl-clutching of gentrifiers before the safety of workers, write Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy.

A man in a hat at London's save our scene rave protest

Feature: Dance Music Took to the Streets This Weekend, But for What?

Ed Gillett

When’s a protest not a protest? Arguably, when it’s just a party - but the boundaries between the two aren’t always distinct, writes Ed Gillett.

matt hancock

Opinion: Hancock’s Resignation Shows Just How Much Johnson’s Government Can Get Away With

Samuel Earle

Boris Johnson was once described as approaching public life “as a game in which he commits sackable offences as a way of demonstrating his unsackability.” It now seems he’s instilled his entire cabinet with the same sense of fun, writes Samuel Earle.

Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher shake hands

Analysis: Neoliberalism is Dead – and Something Even Worse is Taking Its Place

James Meadway

The Tories may have ditched austerity, but that doesn’t mean we’ve anything to celebrate, writes James Meadway.

New Scotland Yard London

Opinion: Spy Cops Inquiry: An Undercover Officer Used Me to Rise to the Top of Our Movement

Richard Chessum

Richard Chessum was targeted by an undercover police officer while he was a student organiser in the 1970s. Piggybacking on Chessum's credibility, "Rick Gibson" became one of the first spy cops to rise to the top of a group he infiltrated and to have sexual relationships with women activists, before he was finally caught out and disappeared entirely.

Opinion: Biden’s New Cold War With China Will Be Justified With Racism

David Wearing

Confrontation with China is shaping up to be a central theme of Joe Biden’s presidency. Of course, racism has structured international relations since at least the colonial era, writes David Wearing.

A policeman wearing in uniform, with rolled up shirtsleeves and a rainbow flag painted on his shirt and face, stands in front of a rainbow double-decker bus proceeded by a march.

Opinion: We Shouldn’t Ban Police From Pride. We Should Abolish Them Altogether

Shanice McBean

This year’s NYC Pride will be the first in years without a police presence. Pride in London’s refusal to follow suit has made the event look increasingly out of touch with a renewed abolitionist movement - one that demands safety from police everywhere, not just at Pride.

George Galloway campaigns in Batley.

Feature: ‘It’s Only the Start’: George Galloway’s Bid for Batley and Spen Could Leave Starmer Staring Into the Abyss

Aaron Bastani

With Keir Starmer failing to offer policies or even discernible political lines, it's no wonder George Galloway is building support in the Batley and Spen byelection. Aaron Bastani reports.

Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord

Sandeep Sandhu

Would-be NHS chief Dido Harding's attack on foreign-born health service workers is a tactical and dangerous erasure of British history, ripped straight from the Tory culture war playbook, writes Sandeep Sandhu.

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