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Mad Youth Organise protest outside Priory Roehampton.

Long Read: Former Priory Patients Tell of ‘Traumatic’ Privatised Mental Health Treatment

Harriet Williamson

The Priory Group receives over £2bn a year from UK taxpayers - and for what? Harriet Williamson reports on force-feeding, untrained agency staff, criminal safety failures and the ‘mad’ youth activists who aren’t having it any more.

Novara Live: Iran Blames U.S and Israel for Fall of Assad

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has spoken publicly for the first time since the fall of his ally, Bashar al-Assad. With Michael Walker and Helena NoJustice(MTG)

A politician in a suit and turban against a background of blurry council chamber

Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?

Rivkah Brown

The newly elected Labour MP gained instant notoriety as the biggest landlord in the Commons. Less known is that in 2019 he was accused of serious sexual assault. Athwal claims that he was cleared by the party. The truth wasn’t so clear-cut, Novara Media can reveal.

hilary cass

Report: The Government’s Impartial Trans Healthcare Reviewer Isn’t so Impartial, Colleagues Claim

Rivkah Brown

Two paediatric healthcare professionals allege that Dr Hilary Cass recommended that they read gender-critical literature and expressed her dismay at medical transition. Rivkah Brown reports.

Novara Live: The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump

20-year-old Matthew Crooks has been named as the shooter responsible for the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Plus: health secretary Wes Streeting has extended the ban on puberty blockers; and foreign secretary David Lammy has visited Israel and met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. With Michael Walker and David Adler.

Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. REUTERS

Opinion: Starmer Has Already Perfected the Art of Doing the Least

Rivkah Brown

Labour’s first-week “announcement blitz” featured a pledge from Reeves not to build council houses and Miliband’s “completely fabricated” ban on new oil and gas licenses. Welcome to Starmerism, writes Rivkah Brown – hope you ate before you came.

Feature: Andrew Feinstein Is the Left’s Anti-Keir Starmer

Rivkah Brown

A former South African MP thought his politician days were behind him – until a UK Labour leader came along who embodied everything he’d ever fought against. Rivkah Brown meets Andrew Feinstein.

Report: Labour Deletes ‘The NHS Is Not for Sale’ From Its Manifesto

Rivkah Brown

The party’s 2024 manifesto has removed the clause agreed upon at the last conference. Is soon-to-be health secretary Wes Streeting trying to tell us something? Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: School Students Walk Out of Shadow Minister’s Assembly Over Labour’s Position on Palestine

Clare Hymer

Around 300 sixth form students in east London boycotted an assembly with Wes Streeting last week over Labour’s support for Israel, while young people in Bristol skipped school for the UK’s first ever ‘school strike for Palestine’. Clare Hymer reports.

Long Read: Effective Altruism Is Infiltrating UK Politics and It’s Time We Woke Up

Matteo Tiratelli

Founded in Oxford in the early 2010s, the movement has since earned a fanbase of American billionaires who are now pumping money into British politics, Labour in particular, writes Matteo Tiratelli.

A group of woman in winter coats, scarves and hats in bright colours hold a bright blue banner on which is written in multicoloured writing: 'The only good Tory is a suppository'.

Opinion: Trust Me, Private Healthcare is a Shitshow

Luke Savage

America spends more money on a worse system that voters hate, writes Luke Savage. So why are UK politicians pretending privatisation will fix the NHS?

Britain's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting speaks at Britain's Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 28, 2022.

Analysis: Labour Is Wrong – Private Healthcare Can’t Save the NHS

Ell Folan

A tiny private sector already bolstered by NHS staff can’t come to the rescue – and nor should it, writes Ell Folan.

British soldiers in Kuwait in 2003. Reuters

Report: Labour Backs Plan to Use Army to Break NHS Strikes

Polly Smythe

Badly paid soldiers could be used to scab on striking nurses, and Labour thinks this is a good idea.

Novara Live: Johnson Pledges to End Covid Rules by End of the Month

Boris Johnson has announced his plan to end all Covid-19 restrictions by the end of the month. Is this how we learn to live with coronavirus, or a risky political stunt?

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All The Best: You Lost, but Call It a Purge If It Makes You Feel Better

Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for episode three of All The Best, with a new feature – “Melt of the Week” – and a highly developed discourse on the ethics of growing human organs in pigs

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