Opinion: You Can Have Schooling or You Can Have Policing. You Can’t Have Both
by Khadijah Anabah
The case of Child Q proves that education is incompatible with the carceral state, argues Khadijah Anabah.
Tag: stop and search
Opinion: The Met Just Apologised After Strip-Searching Me. I Don’t Believe a Word of It
by Koshka Duff
For eight years before their recent U-turn, the officers who assaulted Koshka Duff claimed they were just doing their jobs. They were right, she says: sexual violence is policing’s bread and butter.
Report: Are Random Police Drug Swabs Legal?
by James Greig
The Met’s recent drug-busting operation in Shoreditch has drawn widespread criticism. But what should you do if you are approached by police? James Greig finds out.
Long Read: The Left Won’t Win the 2020s by Clinging to the Corpse of the Labour Party
by Jonas Marvin
James Schneider's undying Labourism, expressed in his recent series How We Win, obscures an important truth: the next left surge will take place against the state, not within it.
Downstream: Why All Drugs Should Be Decriminalised. Interview With David Nutt
The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]
Opinion: The Police Are Going Backwards On Institutional Racism – And Their Most Powerful Officer is In Denial
by Ash Sarkar
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick’s claim that nobody is being stopped and searched because of the colour of their skin is a gross insult to the public's intelligence, writes Ash Sarkar. Whatever progress has been made in tackling racism is now in retreat.
Ash Wednesday: White Lines Matter
In the UK, evidence suggests white people are more likely to take drugs than other ethnic groups. So why are people of colour getting searched more often?
Report: Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse
by Sophie K Rosa
With racial profiling by the police accelerating under lockdown, police monitoring groups and anti-racism activists fear that in the face of intensifying protests, it may get even worse. Sophie K Rosa reports.
The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Koshka Duff, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. In 2013, she was arrested and strip searched after offering a legal advice card to a teenager being stopped and searched in Hackney.
Live: ABOLISH SILICON VALLEY
On this episode of #TyskySour Michael is joined by Ash Sarkar and Wendy Liu to talk stop-and-search in the UK, a socialist tide in the US, and whether it’s time to abolish Silicon Valley.
New Face at the Home Office, But No New Answers to Knife Crime
by Huda Elmi
Sajid Javid is now at the helm of the government’s ‘serious violence strategy’, launched in March to address the UK's knife crime epidemic. But just because he’s the first BME home secretary it doesn’t mean he’ll implement the multi-agency reforms needed to tackle the problem, argues Huda Elmi.