How Harry and Meghan Quit the Royal Family to Join the US Aristocracy
Ash Sarkar
Last night's interview was a reminder that you don’t relinquish one form of royalty without the protection of another.
Tag: racism
After Coronavirus, We Need a New Mental Health System
Sophie K Rosa
10 million of us will need mental health support as a result of this crisis. Our current system won’t cut it.
The Tories’ Anti-Protest Clampdown Will Hit Black and Brown People Hardest
Zehrah Hasan, James Aiken and Callum Lynch
New laws signal a pervasive and deliberate effort by the government to quash protest in the UK.
Maybe Don’t Defund the BBC? Interview With Nish Kumar
This week on Downstream Ash Sarkar met with Nish Kumar – comedian and host of The Mash Report – to talk about how he became the accidental face of the Defund the BBC movement, and why rightwing comics are the real snowflakes.
Boris Johnson Ends ‘War on Woke?!’
On Wednesday, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Boris Johnson said there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being ‘woke’. Yet the signature of the Tories in recent years has been a ‘war on woke’, with MPs and media outriders attacking ideas of social and economic equality while using the term. […]
Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?
Eleanor Penny
No, the United States is Not the Home of Democracy
Aaron Bastani
More Filipino Healthcare Workers Have Died of Covid-19 in the UK Than the Philippines. Why?
Rivkah Brown
Policing of UK BLM Protests Was Institutionally Racist, New Report Finds
Sophie K Rosa
Win or Lose, One Thing is Clear: Donald Trump’s Fascism is No Aberration
David Wearing
The Brutish Museums W/ Dan Hicks
Britain’s museums are filled with objects from around the world which were stolen. Should they be given back? And what would a ‘decolonised’ museum actually look like? Aaron Bastani is joined by Professor Dan Hicks to discuss his new book “The Brutish Museums”.
‘Spycops’ Are a Quintessentially British Institution – As the Empire Well Knows
Eleanor Penny
The Police Will Always Be Susceptible to Far Right Agitation – They Share a History of Violence
Becka Hudson
