I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations
Aydin Dikerdem
Behind the shiny development is a tale of corporate greed and the Conservative councillors who sated it.
Tag: austerity
The Government’s New Disability Strategy Proves It Doesn’t Give a Shit About Disabled People
Ellen Clifford
More cuts. More misery.
Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All
James Meadway
16-24-year-olds want spending cuts over tax increases.
Jobcentre Staff Were Taught to Inflict ‘Psychological Harm’ on the Unemployed
Sophie K Rosa
Top-down pressure and 'benefit scrounger' narratives encouraged staff to be 'cruel and inhumane'.
Universal Credit Is a Symptom of Britain’s Broken Jobs Market
Andrew Fisher
People on UC have jobs, they're just crap ones.
Neoliberalism is Dead – and Something Even Worse is Taking Its Place
James Meadway
Buckle up for a new era of authoritarian capitalism.
Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
With local elections weeks away, politicians who pit themselves against their constituents are working on borrowed time.
The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
Joe Duffy
A leading Tory thinktank is advocating for a regional extension of Thatcherite policies, which would have potentially worrying consequences for the north and the left.
Maybe Don’t Defund the BBC? Interview With Nish Kumar
This week on Downstream Ash Sarkar met with Nish Kumar – comedian and host of The Mash Report – to talk about how he became the accidental face of the Defund the BBC movement, and why rightwing comics are the real snowflakes.
Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? Richard Horton
A year after the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, with Britain enduring more than a 100,000 deaths since, a number of major questions remain unanswered. Why was the response of the UK among the worst in the world? How is it possible that the death toll of countries in Europe and North America […]
“This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?
Queer People Have Had to Rely on Each Other This Year, and Christmas Is No Exception
Harry Gay
Only the Left Can Save Brazil From Bolsonaro in 2021
Benjamin Fogel
The Collapse of the Arcadia Group Spells the End of Britain’s High Street – When Will Politicians Act?
Aaron Bastani
The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing
Humanity is getting older. But while the old outnumbering the young is one of the supreme achievements of our species, it comes with major challenges. Aaron Bastani on a crisis set to re-define societies around the world which, for the 21st century at least, is every bit as disruptive as climate change.
