Opinion: Derek Chauvin’s Conviction Won’t Make Black Lives Matter
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
How comforting it would be were the problem simply police and not policing, writes race scholar Annie Olaloku-Teriba.
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Opinion: My Son Osime Brown Will Die If He is Deported – But the Racist State Isn’t Listening
Joan Martin
Osime Brown has lived in the UK since he was four. He has autism, PTSD and a heart condition, yet the British government wants to deport him to Jamaica, where there is nobody to support him - all for a minor crime witnesses say he did not even commit. His mother, Joan Martin, spoke to Novara Media about why he must be allowed to stay.
Analysis: What Does the European Super League Furore Tell Us About Modern Capitalism?
Aaron Bastani
The brief life and early death of the European Super League captured the political possibilities of the coming decade: dissent will emerge from the most unlikely places, governments will involve themselves in ways once unthinkable and a gilded elite will be left increasingly unsure of its footing.
Analysis: Scramble for the Arctic: How Greenland Became the Frontier of a New Trade and Tech War
James Meadway
Leftist anti-mining party Inuit Ataqatigiit has won Greenland’s snap election. But with international mining companies keen to exploit the island’s vast deposits of rare earth minerals, it is nonetheless emerging as a key battleground in a new great power competition over essential raw materials, writes James Meadway.
Report: The Tories’ New Discipline Drive Prepares Some Kids for Work and Others for Prison
Sophie K Rosa
Orderly and disciplined classrooms train most children to be compliant workers, but send others down the school-to-prison pipeline. Sophie K Rosa reports on the Tories' divisive new crackdown.
Opinion: By Stoking Britain’s Culture War, Boris Johnson is Playing the Long Game
Samuel Earle
While most voters don’t know what the ‘culture war’ even is, the Tories are making it the centrepiece of their governing strategy. Samuel Earle argues Johnson, like Thatcher, is playing the long game – and total control over the terms and conditions of political debate is the goal.
Opinion: Like All Digital Parties, the Northern Independence Party Is a Reflection of Our Broken Politics
Paolo Gerbaudo
Cartel parties that suppress internal democracy, a non-choice between two virtually identical alternatives - the NIP is the product of familiar trends, writes political theorist Paolo Gerbaudo.
Opinion: Mayors Are Blairite Nonsense and We Don’t Need Them
Owen Hatherley
The left should not be campaigning for better mayors - we should be arguing for no mayors at all.
Analysis: The Northern Independence Party Is a Triple Threat to Labour
Ell Folan
Regionalism and left-wing policies poll well in the north, writes Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan, while passionate activists are crucial to electoral success. The NIP has all three.
Opinion: Labour is Running a Saudi Apologist in Hartlepool – And It Should Be a Scandal
David Wearing
In 2018, Labour’s candidate in the Hartlepool by-election went on a state-funded trip to Saudi Arabia and came back a vocal supporter of the regime. While the party’s decision to run him in Hartlepool is certainly shocking, it’s also not even slightly surprising, argues David Wearing.
Opinion: The Pandemic Has Given Sex Workers a Grim Taste of Criminalisation
Vee H
Sex workers are tired of having to fight criminalisation, writes Vee H. But lockdown has given them frightening insight into what tougher laws could entail: more risk, more stigma and ruined earning capacity.
Analysis: Is Britain the World’s Least Racist Country?
Aaron Bastani
The Sewell report claims Britain is "a beacon to the rest of Europe" on matters of race. But is such rhetoric itself an indication of the country’s continued inability to speak honestly about the issue?
Analysis: Ulster Unionism is in Crisis – And the Fallout Could Soon Get Worse
Tommy Greene
The centenary of Irish partition had once been an awaited psychological milestone for Ulster unionists. Yet the discontent expressed through the loyalist riots of the past ten days reflects a deep-seated crisis of the political architecture built into Northern Ireland, writes Tommy Greene.
Opinion: Prince Philip Knew One Important Thing: For Monarchies to Survive, They Must Learn to Adapt
Ash Sarkar
Prince Philip was born into a monarchy in the grips of existential crisis – and died with the British royal family in a state of relative stability. Ash Sarkar argues he adapted to survive, understanding better than anyone else in The Firm that “everything must change, for everything to remain the same”.
Report: A Filipino Nurse Is Being Evicted for Having a Less “Durable Connection With the Area” Than Her Landlord’s Daughter
Rivkah Brown
EXCLUSIVE: The care home nurse and her two sons are the latest victims of a state that recently declared itself racism-free.
Analysis: Police Brutality: How Protesters Resist State Violence Around the World
Charlotte England
Novara Media spoke to those organising against police violence in Myanmar, Greece, Palestine, Nigeria, Chile, Colombia and the United States about what they’re up against, their tips and strategies, and the advice they have for protesters facing police brutality in the UK.
Feature: Changing Attitudes to Death Could Help Us Create a Fairer Society
Sophie K Rosa
Coronavirus has changed the way we grieve and forced more people to confront the reality of death. Is this an opportunity to radically transform our relationship to mortality? Sophie K Rosa reports.
Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That
James Meadway
A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.