How Private Rail Companies Are Trying to Slow Down Nationalisation
Polly Smythe
The longer renationalisation is delayed, the longer profiteers have to lobby the government, reports Polly Smythe.
Climate Prisoners Are Exposing the Dire State of Prison Healthcare
Clare Hymer
Just Stop Oil supporters spoke to Novara Media about their medical neglect in prison, which in one case had potentially life-threatening consequences.
‘This Is Genocide’: Amnesty Publishes Landmark Report on Gaza
Rivkah Brown
Amnesty International has published a 290-page report analysing 102 Israeli official statements, 212 interviews and a cache of documentary evidence. Its conclusion? “This is genocide.” Rivkah Brown reports.
More Than Half of UK Amazon Workers Have to Borrow Money to Make Ends Meet
Polly Smythe
On Black Friday, trade unionists push the US corporate giant to stop squeezing workers for profit.
Berlin Police Brutalise Women at Anti-Violence Demonstration
James Jackson
Protesters marking the international day for the elimination of violence against women were choked, pepper-sprayed and kettled in a show of police force that has become quotidian in the German capital.
Metropolitan Police Put Kurdish Community Centre Under ‘Siege’
John Lubbock
Counter-terror police arrested six people as part of an investigation into the Kurdistan Workers' party, which will close the centre for two weeks.
Vet Company Responds to Strikes By Simply Closing Branches
Polly Smythe
Valley Vets is the first veterinary group in the UK to face strike action by its workers. Now it’s shutting most of its surgeries. Polly Smythe reports.
Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?
Rivkah Brown
Several clinicians pivotal to the Cass Review recently addressed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a designated anti-trans hate group that shares funding sources with the organisation behind Project 2025. Rivkah Brown reports.
Inside TikTok’s Mass Sacking
Polly Smythe
The Chinese tech giant is giving over 100 UK moderators the sack, begging the question: can it stop the spread of dangerous content with AI? Polly Smythe reports.
Germany Ties Cultural Funding to Israel Allegiance
Rivkah Brown
On Thursday a cross-party group of German MPs voted to withhold culture and science funding from those who boycott Israel or breach a pro-Israel definition of antisemitism. Rivkah Brown reports.
Delivery Company Offers Workers Rights – But Only With a Pay Cut
Polly Smythe
After a strike-ballot opened, workers were taken into one-on-one meetings and asked to sign new contracts that they hadn’t even seen. Polly Smythe reports.
Science Museum Grasses on Workers Protesting Tommy Robinson
Simon Childs
The museum praised a demonstration against Tommy Robinson – then wrote to the police about striking staff joining in.
Israel Detained a US Journalist for 4 Days. Why Was the World Silent?
Rivkah Brown
Jeremy Loffredo was detained for allegedly publishing sensitive military information. The US state department said nothing for two days. Rivkah Brown reports.
Lord Walney Keeps His Job – For Now
Simon Childs
This week it looked like the government’s anti-protest advisor John Woodcock AKA Lord Walney had lost his job. Then it didn’t. Now he’s ‘under review’. What the hell is going on, asks Simon Childs.
Royal Mail-Owned Delivery Firm Faces Strike Action After Denying Workers Basic Rights
Polly Smythe
Years after admitting to the scandal of misclassifying staff as independent contractors, eCourier is still at it - and workers have had enough. Polly Smythe reports.
Exclusive: Migrant Cleaners Declare Victory After Strikes at Department for Education
Simon Childs
The outsourced facilities workers won back-pay, full sick pay and more holidays after a dispute that lasted over a year.
Exclusive: Tory MP Looks at Israel’s Lebanon Pager Attacks ‘With Awe’
Simon Childs
Lincoln Jopp MP told a meeting at the Conservative party conference that killing three children would be ‘a phenomenally small amount of collateral damage’.
Rightwing Journalists Keep Grassing Up Activists to the Police
Clare Hymer
Reporters for tabloid newspapers are infiltrating non-violent direct action groups, collaborating with the police and getting activists arrested. Clare Hymer reports.