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Simon Childs

Simon Childs is a commissioning editor and reporter for Novara Media.

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Articles

Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government

Police Spent £3m Arresting Climate Activists During Far-Right Riots

UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims

Police Officer Who Arrested Anti-Monarchy Protester ‘Was Aware’ No Offence Had Been Committed

24 February 2025

Mumford and Sons-Owned Bar Was Set to Host Far-Right Afterparty

20 February 2025

The Government’s Anti-Democracy Tsar Finally Got Sacked, but Protest Is Still Under Threat

11 February 2025

Tory Councillor Accused of Smearing Teenager As Antisemite for Palestine Petition

31 December 2024

Novara Media’s Losers of the Year 2024

20 December 2024

Has David Lammy Betrayed His Kurdish Friends?

11 December 2024

GB News Hates Muslims – And Now We Have Receipts

3 December 2024

Meet the Super-Rich Property Mogul Who Just Got Made Reform UK’s New ‘Life President’

28 November 2024

Does Lord Walney Think All Palestinian Groups Are the Same?

4 November 2024

A Palestinian Academic Thought Her Ordeal With Her Employer Was Over. Then It ‘Reached Out to the Jewish Chronicle’

24 October 2024

Science Museum Grasses on Workers Protesting Tommy Robinson

10 October 2024

Lord Walney Keeps His Job – For Now

Exclusive: Migrant Cleaners Declare Victory After Strikes at Department for Education

Exclusive: Tory MP Looks at Israel’s Lebanon Pager Attacks ‘With Awe’

26 September 2024

The Government’s ‘Progressive’ Top Lawyer Is Off to a Rocky Start

19 September 2024

Nigel Farage Loves Migrants – As Long As They Travel By Private Jet

‘Vote Genocide’: Satirical Poster Included in Dossier of Election ‘Abuse’

Muslim Convicted in Rioting Should Have ‘Risen Above’ Far-Right Racism, Says Judge

How the Hell Did Police Think There Would Be 100 Riots?

Jonathan Ashworth Apologises After Leaving Party Colleague ‘Distressed and Alarmed’

Former Foreign Minister Cleared of Antisemitism Claims After Calling Out Israel Lobbying

Meet the Curveballs in Starmer’s Cabinet

How the Tories Bit the Dust – and Started Their Next Civil War

Former Braverman Advisor Says It’s a ‘Smear’ to Call Tommy Robinson Far-Right

Is This Reform UK’s Most Shameless Candidate?

Prestigious Science Institute in Meltdown Over ‘Alleged Peaceful’ Palestine Cake Sale

Inside the Tory-Linked Far-Right Group Organising Against the Left

John Woodcock Has No Idea What the ‘Far Left’ Is and Frankly nor Do We

Arts Council Warning Against Political Statements Came After Government Talks on Gaza

Far-Right Party ‘Thrilled’ by ‘Remarkable Achievement’ of Losing Election

‘Snooping’ Claim After Anti-Monarchy Opinions Included in Government Disinformation Reports

MP Pulls Out of Climate Summit Over Fossil Fuel Sponsorship

Meet the Unelected Lord Shutting Down Peace Protests to ‘Save Democracy’

27 February 2024

RIP Vice: A Good Website Killed by Incompetent, Overpaid Bosses

22 February 2024

Is This Britain’s Most Hypocritical Boss?

14 February 2024

The Far-Right Plot to Take Over Your Allotment

25 January 2024

‘Imagine It Was Your Family’: Grenfell Survivors Tell of Ongoing Agony

19 January 2024

Pro-Palestine Protester Arrested for Using Pins to Put Placard on MP’s Door

13 December 2023

Government Advisor Suggests Palestine Protests Could Be Treated Like Sectarian Parades in Northern Ireland

7 December 2023

Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet and Anti-Racism Campaigner, Dies Aged 65

22 November 2023

Protesters Were ‘Reasonable’ to Call Iain Duncan Smith ‘Tory Scum’, Court Rules

16 November 2023

A Third of Keir Starmer’s MPs Defied Him Over the Vote for a Ceasefire

13 November 2023

The Rightwing Media Is Very Upset About the Remembrance Day Disorder It Helped Cause

11 November 2023

The Far-Right Observed Remembrance Day by Fighting the Police

9 November 2023

Suella Braverman, Far-Right Activists and the Media Are Stoking Tensions Ahead of Saturday’s Palestine March

3 November 2023

Who Is the Tory Counter-Extremism ‘Expert’ Labelling Pro-Palestine Protests ‘Antisemitic’?

25 October 2023

Tory MP Says It’s ‘Not Easy’ to See Difference Between Hamas Members and Civilians

20 October 2023

Ofcom Has Capitulated to a Rightwing Witch-Hunt Over Israel

20 October 2023

‘Blood On Your Hands’: Labour Faces Protests Over Israel-Palestine Stance

17 October 2023

Labour Councillors Keep Quitting Over Party ‘Endorsing’ Israeli War Crimes

10 October 2023

Not ‘Fair’ to Block Massive New Oil Field, Says Labour Decarbonisation Lead

There Were No Complaints About Trans Women on Hospital Wards, Investigation Finds

Drax Is Getting More Sneaky With Its Labour Conference Lobbying

Hackney Mayor Partied With Councillor He Knew Had Been Arrested for Possessing Child Abuse Images

How Vice Went From New Media Giant to Saudi Propaganda Machine

Union-Busting Pub Landlords Pay Thousands in Compensation to Striking Workers

Precarious, Low-Paid Migrant Workers Are Sick of Low Pay and Bad Conditions

Turning Point UK Questions Inanimate Object After Bloodshed at Demonstration

Meet the Robin Hood-Style Activists ‘Shoplifting’ for Food Banks

‘Shaming, Othering and Scapegoating’: Protestor on Why He Ambushed Jacob Rees-Mogg

These Conservatives Won’t Let Us Watch Their Weird Far-Right Conference

The Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Plant in the UK Burns Wood Processed in Poor, Black Communities in the US

Fascist Party Patriotic Alternative in Messy Break Up

‘Engines of History’: Traffic Warden Strike to Cause ‘Chaos’ at King’s Coronation

Glasgow Flats Demolition ‘On the Wrong Side of History’, Experts Say

‘We’re Pivoting to Hippy Crack’: Novara Media to Sell ‘Nos’ to Socialist Teens

‘Bastards!’: Comedian and Outspoken Critic of Austerity Paul O’Grady Dies Aged 67

The Organiser of an Anti-Migrant Protest to Protect Women Is a Woman Beater

Drag Queens Are the Latest Target for Homophobic Culture Warriors

15 February 2023

‘Racist NIMBYs’, Neo-Nazis and Bigoted Politicians: How an Anti-Migrant Riot Broke Out on Merseyside

6 February 2023

Labour Took Thousands of Pounds From a Massive Polluter

2 February 2023

Meet the UK’s ‘Most Loathed’ Landowner

20 January 2023

Iconic Glasgow Council Flats Occupied in Protest Against Demolition

10 January 2023

The Anti-Fascist Research Group Exposing Britain’s Neo-Nazi Threat

30 December 2022

These Were the Moments That Made 2022

9 December 2022

Mick Lynch: ‘Corruption’ is to Blame for Lack of Progress in Rail Dispute

2 December 2022

Harrods is One of the First Companies to Use a New Tory Anti-Strike Law

30 November 2022

RSA Staff Win Union Recognition Despite ‘Intimidation’

24 November 2022

Keir Starmer Had a Photo-Op at the Telegraph As Part of His Rightwing Media Tour

22 November 2022

Tory Councillor Steps Down As Recording Reveals He Was ‘Admirer’ of Fascism

18 November 2022

Tory Councillor Attended Fascist Meetings ‘in the Spirit of Education and Curiosity’

9 November 2022

Why Is This Vegan Bacon Advert So Annoying?

20 October 2022

The Tory Death Spiral Awards

Police Compensate Protester Who Held ‘Priti Fascist’ Sign

30 September 2022

The Thinktank Behind Trussonomics Is Throwing a Party With a Crisis PR Firm

29 September 2022

Expensive Property Has More Rights Than Protesters, Says Court

27 September 2022

Protesters Call Out ‘Environmental Racism’ at New Statesman Event at Labour Conference

23 September 2022

Mini-Budget: Attacks on Trade Unions, Tax Cuts for the Rich

22 September 2022

Labour Conference Will Be Rife With Corporate Greenwashing

20 September 2022

Campaigners Are Trying to Stop a Massive New North Sea Oil Field

13 September 2022

Let Them Eat Nothing: Food Banks to Close for Queen’s Funeral

12 September 2022

Anti-Monarchy Protesters Keep Getting Arrested

7 September 2022

This Company Promised Students Their Energy Bills Were Fixed. Now They’re ‘Bullying’ Them Into Paying More

2 September 2022

This Residents Group Just Won a Freeze on ‘Obscene’ Energy Price Hikes

More Amazon Strikes Expected in Row Over Pay

Workers Stage Wildcat Strike at Major Oil Refinery

‘If They Call It, We’ll Support It’: RMT Would Back General Strike

Hundreds of Amazon Workers Stage Wildcat Strike Over ‘Kick in the Teeth’ Pay Offer

Met Police Forced to Apologise for Arresting Trade Union Official

Six Key Takeaways From the Forde Report Into Labour’s Civil War

Pub Workers Launch Fresh Strikes Despite Union Busting From ‘Out of Control’ Landlords

Who Could Replace Boris Johnson and How Scared Should I Be?

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