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The Darlington nurses outside Newcastle Tribunal centre. Photo: Iain Masterton/Alamy Live News

Report: What Does the Darlington Nurses’ Case Mean for Trans People? Experts Are Divided

Rivkah Brown

The case has been presented as a milestone in the campaign to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces, but lawyers disagree on how significant the judgement actually is. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Report: Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One

Rivkah Brown

Gender-critical campaigners had hoped that this year’s Supreme Court ruling would tee up US-style bathroom bills across the UK, throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at lawsuits to exclude trans women from women’s spaces. It’s not working out that way. Rivkah Brown reports.

Novara Live: Labour’s Compromise With the Employment Rights Bill

Plus: Reform Party receives £9m donation, Pete Hegseth accused of a war crime, and Valentina Gomez stuns Piers Morgan with her extreme views. With: Helena(NoJusticeMTG), Dalia Gebrial & Meg De Meo

Opinion: The Right to Work From Home Should Be a Demand Far Beyond the Pandemic

James McAsh

Once preserved as a perk of high-status jobs, for many workers the dubious obstacles to being permitted to work from home have evaporated during lockdown. On National Work from Home Day, James McAsh argues it ought to be a right, not a privilege - and not just for the duration of the pandemic.

Strippers Take Aim at Women’s Equality Party Over ‘Sting’ Operation

Sophie Hemery

Anti-strip club campaigners linked to the Women’s Equality party allegedly paid private investigators, including two former police officers, to pose as customers in strip clubs and film dancers without their consent.

‘Work Sucks, I Know’: It’s Time We Moved to a Four-Day Week

James Meadway

Government spin would have you believe the world of work is looking rosier than ever - were it not for the fact that it defines our actual daily existence. In a new column, James Meadway - former economics editor to John McDonnell - argues a four-day week could be the solution we've been desiring all along.

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

John Murray

Warwick University has announced plans to employ all casual staff through an internal temp agency. Anti-casualisation campaigners have targeted the move as an insidious form of outsourcing which threatens the whole sector.

4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time

Nick Srnicek

What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?

‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014

Aaron Bastani

Here Aaron Bastani takes a quick look at today's budget. Little has changed from the growth model leading up to the crisis of 2008 he says and the budget is filled with assumptions and projections that are bordering on delusional.

Bang On The Money: Four More Reasons to Support the Universal Basic Income

Andrew Dolan recently wrote a list of seven reasons to support a universal basic income. It has been well received and I agree with nearly all of it. Below are four more reasons to support the UBI. 1. We all have a right to the shared bounty of the land. Wealth is made from a […]

Do They Owe Us a Living? 7 Reasons the Universal Basic Income is Worth Fighting For.

Andrew Dolan

The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – sometimes called the Unconditional Basic Income, Citizens’ Income or Social Wage – has in recent times become a focus of economic discussion across the political spectrum. While column inches in the Financial Times and The Economist have been racking up, academics such as Stuart White have been articulating how […]

Weaponising Workfare

Aaron Peters

In an article originally posted at 'Our Kingdom' at Open Democracy in March 2013 Bastani looks at the relationship between the secular crisis, surplus populations, automation and workfare policies.

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Report: What Does the Darlington Nurses’ Case Mean for Trans People? Experts Are Divided

Rivkah Brown

Report: Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One

Rivkah Brown

Novara Live: Labour’s Compromise With the Employment Rights Bill

Opinion: The Right to Work From Home Should Be a Demand Far Beyond the Pandemic

James McAsh

Strippers Take Aim at Women’s Equality Party Over ‘Sting’ Operation

Sophie Hemery

‘Work Sucks, I Know’: It’s Time We Moved to a Four-Day Week

James Meadway

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

John Murray

4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time

Nick Srnicek

‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014

Aaron Bastani

Bang On The Money: Four More Reasons to Support the Universal Basic Income

Adam Ramsay

Do They Owe Us a Living? 7 Reasons the Universal Basic Income is Worth Fighting For.

Andrew Dolan

Weaponising Workfare

Aaron Peters

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Report: What Does the Darlington Nurses’ Case Mean for Trans People? Experts Are Divided

Rivkah Brown

Report: Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One

Rivkah Brown

Novara Live: Labour’s Compromise With the Employment Rights Bill

Opinion: The Right to Work From Home Should Be a Demand Far Beyond the Pandemic

James McAsh

Strippers Take Aim at Women’s Equality Party Over ‘Sting’ Operation

Sophie Hemery

‘Work Sucks, I Know’: It’s Time We Moved to a Four-Day Week

James Meadway

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

John Murray

4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time

Nick Srnicek

‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014

Aaron Bastani

Bang On The Money: Four More Reasons to Support the Universal Basic Income

Adam Ramsay

Do They Owe Us a Living? 7 Reasons the Universal Basic Income is Worth Fighting For.

Andrew Dolan

Weaponising Workfare

Aaron Peters

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