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Feature: Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Labour’s ‘biggest fraud crackdown in a generation’ involves using artificial intelligence to surveil Britain’s most vulnerable people, while letting the rich and powerful do as they please.

Prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves visit a Jaguar Land Rover factory in Birmingham, April 2025. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters.

Opinion: Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Phil McDuff

Our political establishment has given itself a form of brain damage because it’s unable to let go of the Thatcher-Reagan consensus - and we’re now reaping the inevitable rewards, writes Phil McDuff.

Nigel Farage, in a hi-vis jacket, holds his arms in the air behind a podium reading 'Reform Will Fix It.'

Opinion: Voting Labour Won’t Save Us From Reform

Harriet Williamson

Reform UK is standing more candidates than any other party in next month's local elections. But casting a ballot for Labour won't save our communities from far-right creep, writes Harriet Williamson.

Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL (University College London), in London, Britain January 13, 2025, as he prepares to launch a plan to harness AI to spur growth and efficiency in the country. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Ministers have looked at the UK economy in 2025 and concluded that disabled people simply have it too good. Can they be serious? Phil McDuff writes.

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Keir Starmer’s rearmament agenda is not about security - it’s a bid to appease Donald Trump, writes Khem Rogaly.

A woman with a black turtle neck and black glasses

Interview: ‘The Entire Human Rights System Is in Danger’: In Conversation With Francesca Albanese

Sebastian Shehadi

The United Nations rapporteur has broken with institutional convention with her straight-talking manner and willingness to call out Israeli genocide, no matter the personal cost. Sebastian Shehadi sits down with Francesca Albanese.

The strike at Amazon Coventry in November 2023. REUTERS/Carl Recine

Analysis: Labour Said It Would Make Work Pay. Will It?

Polly Smythe

The government's big pitch to workers and trade unions could end up full of loopholes, missed opportunities and bad incentives for bosses. Polly Smythe reports.

Feature: How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

While Suella Braverman and Priti Patel are remembered as the spearheads of the protest crackdown, writes Francesca Newton, it was Tony Blair who kicked it into a whole new gear.

A head shot of activist Ellen Clifford outside the royal courts of justice.

Feature: Meet the Disabled Activist Taking the UK Government to Court

Harriet Williamson

Ellen Clifford is fighting Keir Starmer's government in the high court to prevent disability benefit cuts. She speaks to Harriet Williamson about the value of disabled life under capitalism, assisted dying and why disabled people threaten the status quo.

Photographs of various gender clinicians surround an image of Donald Trump

Report: Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Several clinicians pivotal to the Cass Review recently addressed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a designated anti-trans hate group that shares funding sources with the organisation behind Project 2025. Rivkah Brown reports.

A man looks at the camera in front of a house facade

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

With the recent budget Labour whispered its first words of defiance to the bullying landlord lobby. A little louder for the people at the back, writes Nick Bano.

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

The director's new film 2073 gestures at social ills but struggles to name culprits, let alone solutions. The result is to induce despair rather than prompt action, writes Juliet Jacques.

A politician in a suit and turban against a background of blurry council chamber

Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

The newly elected Labour MP gained instant notoriety as the biggest landlord in the Commons. Less known is that in 2019 he was accused of serious sexual assault. Athwal claims that he was cleared by the party. The truth wasn’t so clear-cut, Novara Media can reveal.

Opinion: Yahya Sinwar’s Death Will Expose the West’s Lies

Rivkah Brown

In its accidental killing of the Hamas leader, Israel has achieved what it set out to after 7 October, writes Rivkah Brown. What excuse will Biden and his crew come up with for Netanyahu now?

A man in a keffiyeh and thawb sits on someone's shoulders holding a megaphone.

Opinion: One Year On, the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Undefeated

Palestinian Youth Movement

The last year has exposed the gulf between the British public and its ruling class. Despite Rishi Sunak and now Keir Starmer’s determination to crush the massive popular movement for a free Palestine, the people have not bent to their will, writes the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats

Juliet Jacques

The satirical museum has met an end too good to be scripted. Juliet Jacques meets its co-founder, the artist Darren Cullen.

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Feature: Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Phil McDuff

Opinion: Voting Labour Won’t Save Us From Reform

Harriet Williamson

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Interview: ‘The Entire Human Rights System Is in Danger’: In Conversation With Francesca Albanese

Sebastian Shehadi

Analysis: Labour Said It Would Make Work Pay. Will It?

Polly Smythe

Feature: How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

Report: Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Yahya Sinwar’s Death Will Expose the West’s Lies

Rivkah Brown

Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats

Juliet Jacques

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Tag: keir starmer

Feature: Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Phil McDuff

Opinion: Voting Labour Won’t Save Us From Reform

Harriet Williamson

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Interview: ‘The Entire Human Rights System Is in Danger’: In Conversation With Francesca Albanese

Sebastian Shehadi

Analysis: Labour Said It Would Make Work Pay. Will It?

Polly Smythe

Feature: How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

Feature: Meet the Disabled Activist Taking the UK Government to Court

Harriet Williamson

Report: Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Yahya Sinwar’s Death Will Expose the West’s Lies

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: One Year On, the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Undefeated

Palestinian Youth Movement

Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats

Juliet Jacques

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