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.
Key Israel Arms Supplier Sponsors Labour Conference Event
Sam Bright
Exclusive: the New Statesman magazine will host an event sponsored by Northrop Grumman, a key supplier to the Israeli airforce, on the subject of ‘a new era of defence’.
‘Vote Genocide’: Satirical Poster Included in Dossier of Election ‘Abuse’
Simon Childs
Exclusive: An artist has been left in shock after his political poster was included in a dossier alleging a “concerted campaign by extremists” to intimidate general election candidates. Simon Childs reports.
Nobody in Peckham Wants More Luxury Flats
Moya Lothian-McLean
The fight to stop property developers turning a south London shopping centre into yet more luxury flats has allied long-term residents with new generations of 'gentrifiers'. If they win, they could set a precedent that resonates far and wide. Moya Lothian-McLean reports.
Here’s How Labour and the Unions Could Take on Amazon
Polly Smythe
Keir Starmer previously said Amazon should recognise trade unions. But the company is already lobbying new MPs.
Boomtown Festival Attendee ‘Slammed Against Wall’ by Security for Pro Sex-Worker Graffiti
Moya Lothian-McLean
An artist was accused of soliciting for sex because of the graffiti at the festival, whose theme was ‘Revolution of the Imagination’
Muslim Convicted in Rioting Should Have ‘Risen Above’ Far-Right Racism, Says Judge
Simon Childs
Amer Walid, who had no previous convictions, was given 20 months after he threw cans back at far-right rioters who were chanting racist slurs.