Downstream: Drugs Have Shaped the Last 500 Years. Ash Sarkar Meets Michael Pollan
The author of The Botany of Desire, How To Change Your Mind and The Omnivore’s Dilemma talks to Ash Sarkar about caffeine, capitalism and how to avoid a bad trip.
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Opinion: Whether or Not a Cop Killed Sarah Everard, the Police Are Complicit in What Happened to Her
by Rivkah Brown
A woman’s disappearance this week has been widely interpreted as an act of gendered violence. But to fully understand what happened to her, we must examine the role played by the state, writes Rivkah Brown.
Downstream: Can You Change the Police From Within? Ash Sarkar Meets Leroy Logan
20 years after the Macpherson Report, the Metropolitan Police is still dogged by accusations of institutional racism, while the Black Lives Matter movement has forced a reckoning with police brutality and inequalities in the criminal justice system. But should Black and Asian people protest from the outside to force change, or join the ranks of […]
Ash Wednesday: White Lines Matter
In the UK, evidence suggests white people are more likely to take drugs than other ethnic groups. So why are people of colour getting searched more often?
The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Koshka Duff, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. In 2013, she was arrested and strip searched after offering a legal advice card to a teenager being stopped and searched in Hackney.
#CopsOffCampus
Aaron Bastani reports from the #CopsOffCampus protest, looking at police tactics and the evolution of the UK student movement.
Open Letter From ‘Refuse to Collaborate’
by Refuse to Collaborate
An open letter from 'refuse to collaborate' regarding the policing of protest in the UK and the imperative for organisations and networks to no longer liaise with police in the 'coordination' of demonstrations.