Analysis: Were the 70s Really That Great?
Juliet Jacques
From the union boom to radical TV, the left tends to see the 70s through rose-tinted glasses. We should beware nostalgia, writes Juliet Jacques.
Tag: media
Explainers: Why BT Workers Are Going on Strike
BT recorded £2 billion in profits before tax last year. Its CEO, Philip Jansen, enjoyed a salary of £3.5 million. Yet it’s now offering engineers & call centre workers a real terms pay CUT. Aaron Bastani explains why BT workers have had enough.
Explainers: The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Analysis: The Media Needs More Labour Correspondents
Sam Bright
Mick Lynch has badly exposed the lack of specialist labour reporters in mainstream media. But it wasn’t always like this, Sam Bright writes.
Report: Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way
Olly Haynes
Camped out in an empty Parisian office block, XY Media is a new media frontier of trans liberation. Olly Haynes reports.
Opinion: Musk Buying Twitter Would Be the Defining Deal of Our Era
Aaron Bastani
Elon Musk buying Twitter, even more than Jeff Bezos flying into space, would perhaps be the greatest statement of plutocratic intent in history, argues Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: The Response to the Trojan Horse Affair Tells Us All We Need to Know About Islamophobia in Britain
Zarah Sultana
Since its release, the Trojan Horse Affair podcast has been met with near silence by the British media. This isn’t a surprise, writes Zarah Sultana: Islamophobia shaped the media’s response to the hoax letter in 2014 and Islamophobia explains its disregard for the podcast’s revelations in 2022.
Ash Wednesday: Why Libertarians Agree With Putin | Ash Sarkar
There’s a clear split between rightwing commentators, and Putin’s war on Ukraine. But between pundits and Putin’s war on woke? Not so much!
Opinion: For Putin, Failure in Ukraine Isn’t an Option
Volodya Vagner
Given how Vladimir Putin has so publicly tied himself to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s failure will be hard to present as anything other than his own, writes Volodya Vagner.
Report: German State Broadcaster Fires Seven Arab Journalists in Supposed Antisemitism Purge
Rivkah Brown
Deutsche Welle employees say the firing spree reflects the organisation’s increasingly hardline pro-Israel stance. Rivkah Brown reports.
Ash Wednesday: Do I Think About Rape Too Much?
Why are women more afraid of violence from strangers on the street when - statistically speaking - home is the place where they're most unsafe? Ash Sarkar takes a look at how rational fears are used to justify irrational policy decisions, and what we miss when we talk about 'rape culture'.
Opinion: The Tories Have Lied About Labour Leaders for Years. Why Does the Media Care Now?
Aaron Bastani
Outrage over scurrilous claims made by the prime minister about Keir Starmer highlights the hypocrisy at the heart of the incestuous establishment, argues Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: Succession is the Perfect Eulogy for a Dying Republic
Aaron Bastani
With its third season coming to a close, Aaron Bastani argues that HBO's Succession is an apt portrayal of a republic in terminal decline.
Opinion: Islamophobia Isn’t Ingrained in British Culture – It’s Fed to Us From the Top
Zarah Sultana
Zarah Sultana expected anti-Muslim hatred when she became an MP. She also knew exactly who’d be whipping it up. A new report proves her right.
Opinion: Priti Patel Is Right About One Thing: Our Asylum System Is Fundamentally Broken
Zoe Gardner
Without safe ways to come to the UK, migrants will keep drowning in the Channel, writes Zoe Gardner.
Downstream: Why Are All the Baddies Disabled?
From ancient myths through to the Batman trilogy, pop culture is littered with disabled people and those with facial differences being cast as villains. Why does disability feature so heavily in literary and cinematic traditions, and how has this hypervisiblity had the ironic effect of erasing the experiences of disabled people? Ash Sarkar is joined […]
Opinion: Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights
Moya Lothian-McLean
Despite ‘gender critical’ feminists' cries that they are being censored, the Guardian cutting a sizeable chunk of its interview with gender theorist Judith Butler shows which side is really being subjected to the violence of silence in the battle for trans liberation.
Opinion: On Losing Perspective, Or, Why I Don’t Give a Fuck About Geronimo the Alpaca and nor Should You
Rachel Connolly
From blaming everything on capitalism to calling everyone "toxic", it's time we collectively got a grip, argues Rachel Connolly.