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A person with long brown hair, medium-dark skin and a purple top carries a white banner on which is written in black, red and purple lettering: 'Stop the Deportations'

Opinion: We Could Get Life in Prison for Blocking a Deportation Flight

by Griff Ferris

Threatening peaceful protesters with life in prison is authoritarianism, plain and simple. We aren't going to stand for it – and nor should you, writes immigration activist Griff Ferris.

a black woman with pink braids, a grey woolie hat, circular glasses and a surgical face mask holds a navy blue banner on which is written in white writing: 'the Met are murderers'

Analysis: It’s Official: The British Public Hates the Police

by Ell Folan

The police's net approval rating is just +5, down from +60 four years ago, writes Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan.

Analysis: Who Counts As A Cyclist In London?

by Moya Lothian-McLean

The capital’s authorities say they want to encourage diversity among bike riders. Their actions don't match up, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Novara FM: The Long, Long Arm of the Law

Can the police ever be held to account? Professor Mark Neocleous speaks to James Butler.

Two riot police with 'Polizia' on their jackets and blue helmets face a crowd marching towards them carrying banners

Feature: Italy’s ‘Fascist’ Government Is Imprisoning Anarchists Using Anti-Mafia Laws

by Jack Harmsworth

Alfredo Cospito is imprisoned under '41-bis', a system so brutal even an American court compared it to 'torture'. Jack Harmsworth reports.

Analysis: The Panic Around ‘County Lines’ Is Legitimising Expanded Policing Powers

by Lauren E Wroe

In the name of 'safeguarding' children, the Home Office has just rebranded old anti-gang policies that overwhelmingly criminalise young people from minoritised communities.

Analysis: The Police Are Psychics Now, Apparently

by Rivkah Brown

Rivkah Brown explains the latest amendments to the public order bill.

A white police van with small black windows drives down a motorwar

Analysis: The UK Has Its Own Mass Incarceration Crisis

by Ell Folan

The UK now spends £5bn a year on prisons, more than any other European country besides Russia, writes Ell Folan.

Long Read: Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All

by Micha Frazer-Carroll

Carceral approaches to mental healthcare are on the rise in Britain. This should worry us all, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.

Analysis: People Want Action on Climate Change But Also Want Climate Protesters Locked Up

by Ell Folan

Two-thirds of Britons fear climate breakdown. They also want to make it harder for activists to do something about it. Ell Folan unpicks some contradictory opinions.

Image shows a Greater Manchester Police officer wearing a yellow hi-vis police jacket and black cap standing on a rainy street, with their head bowed.

Analysis: Why Are We Still Pretending This Police Watchdog Is Independent?

by Larry Lock

Families bereaved at the hands of the police are forced to turn to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. But justice is hard to come by when the watchdog is only out to protect its own.

Image shows David Lloyd, police and crime commissioner of Hertfordshire Constabulary, appearing on Nick Ferrari's LBC radio show.

Report: Police Commissioner Says Journalists Are ‘Part of the Problem’ After Arrest of Just Stop Oil Reporters

by Moya Lothian-McLean

After Hertfordshire police detained journalists covering Just Stop Oil protests this week, the force’s commissioner has suggested the media should ‘reflect’ on giving activists ‘publicity’.

A man with shoulder-length brown curly hair, wearing a great sweater, black bomat trousers and brown boots, stands against a grassy background

Report: This Protester Committed No Crime But Is Going to Prison Anyway

by Denise Laura Baker & Josie Argyle

On 23 September, climate activist Elliott Cuciurean was sentenced to 268 days in prison. He hadn't committed any crime, but instead had breached HS2's injunction. Denise Laura Baker and Josie Argyle report on the privatisation of protest policing.

Image shows a line of test tubes filled with pink liquid on a stainless steel bench. Beside them, a pair of hands in blue medical gloves marks a line of dots in red pen on a small piece of white cardboard.

Analysis: DNA Phenotyping is the Latest Racist Addition to Policing Technology

by Sanjana Varghese

DNA phenotyping is closer to ‘science fiction’ than reality, but police forces are using it anyway.

A police officer stands outside Didsbury mosque in Manchester.

Report: Black People Nearly Eight Times More Likely to Be Banned From Manchester Carnival

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Novara Media has uncovered huge racial disparities in gang-related carnival bans handed out by Greater Manchester Police.

Members of animal rebellion are surrounded by police at a protest in London.

Report: Animal Rebellion Activists on Why They’re Emptying Supermarkets of Milk to Save the Climate

by Sophie K Rosa

Animal Rebellion is mid-way through a two-week direct action campaign that claims to have emptied supermarket shelves of milk, in a bid to force the government to support a just transition away from animal agriculture. Sophie K Rosa reports.

A group of people march down a street holding placards. One in the foreground depicts a black man smiling, it reads 'justice for Chris Kaba'

Opinion: Why Should Chris Kaba’s Death Matter Less Than the Queen’s?

by Kehinde Andrews

Three days before Elizabeth Windsor died, Chris Kaba did. The establishment’s apathy is testament to the very racism the monarch embodies, writes Kehinde Andrews.

Report: Manchester Police Probably Broke the Law With ‘Racist’ Carnival Bans

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Exclusive: Manchester police are investigating whether they broke the law with 'racist' letters that banned alleged 'gang members' from carnival.