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Downstream: Why the Trojan Horse Affair Is a Very British Scandal

The Bastani Factor: Faith, Politics and Socialism | Aaron Meets Salma Yaqoob
Almost two decades ago Salma Yaqoob was politicised by the ‘War on Terror’ – both at home and abroad. Now she is looking to be Labour’s candidate in next year’s West Midlands Mayoral election. Aaron Bastani caught up with her at this year’s ‘The World Transformed’ to discuss how she became politicised, why she joined […]
3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions
Craig McVegas
Next to the storming of Millbank, 9th December 2010 arguably saw the most notable ‘moment of excess’ of the Coalition-era student movement. Over the course of about ten hours, thousands of young students from universities, colleges and schools found themselves on the wrong end of police batons, riot shields and horse charges. Suddenly, aggressively, masses […]