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Opinion: These Six Media Lies Are Stoking the Anti-Migrant Protests

Simon Childs

The Sun published a report claiming asylum seekers are enjoying discounted boat rides, while the Mail on Sunday says the UK is in the midst of a ‘migrant crime wave’. Neither is true. Simon Childs reports.

A woman in a grey hijab holds up her phone to take a photograph. The phone has a sticker on the back that says "Free Gaza".

Opinion: The Online Safety Act Has Nothing to Do With Child Safety and Everything to Do With Censorship

Kate Sim

Within hours of Ofcom enforcing the new law last week, Gaza and Ukraine content was being blocked, while pickup artist content and child modelling sites weren’t. That’s entirely by design, writes Kate Sim.

Opinion: The Most Pointless Twitter Discourses Of 2022

Moya Lothian-McLean

For all the complaints of Twitter’s early death, a hell of a lot of us have remained sadly logged on.

Opinion: Maybe Twitter Should Die?

Moya Lothian-McLean

For those interested in creating a more progressive, equal society, Twitter’s 'demise' would actually be a blessing in disguise.

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: 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.

Novara FM: Notice Me!

Is modern politics governed by the demand for recognition? And what happens when that collides with the internet? Will Davies explains.

A photograph of the members of former political party Change UK at a restaurant, with whippets' faces superimposed onto theirs.

Opinion: Like All Digital Parties, the Northern Independence Party Is a Reflection of Our Broken Politics

Paolo Gerbaudo

Cartel parties that suppress internal democracy, a non-choice between two virtually identical alternatives - the NIP is the product of familiar trends, writes political theorist Paolo Gerbaudo.

Ash Wednesday: Are Right-wingers an Oppressed Minority?

Ash Sarkar explores how the language of minoritarian grievance has been appropriated by the most powerful people in political media.

Novara Live: Wiley & the Twitter Boycott

After Wiley’s antisemitic Twitter rant was left up for 48 hours, celebrities and campaigners are boycotting the platform. But, does the dodgy record on racism of those who instigated the action mean progressives should avoid the #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate movement? We’re joined by Rivkah Brown to discuss. Plus, Labour Right Blackmail Keir Starmer, and Elon Musk Backs the […]