The Conservative Party’s appalling record on Islamophobia
Councillors who have shared posts calling for Muslims to be deported, described Saudis as “sand peasants” and shared material comparing Asian people to dogs have all been quietly reinstated.
Basit Mahmood
Right-wing ‘anti-woke’ warriors launch alarming ideological campaign against National Trust
The directors of Restore Trust, reportedly include a financier who has backed a leading climate-sceptic lobby group.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Amazon could owe drivers £140 million over employee rights claims
Amazon could owe thousands of drivers who deliver its parcels an average of £10,500 compensation for each year they have delivered for the company.
Hate crimes rise to highest level on record
Racially motivated hate crimes have risen by 12%.
Report by MPs says government’s response to Covid was ‘one of the worst ever public health failures’
The UK has one of the world’s highest death tolls from Covid, with more than 138,000 deaths
Amnesty International warns of “unprecedented programme of rights reversal” by the government
“Ordinary people have fought hard and often bitter battles to achieve these rights – and we mustn’t let them be struck out by politicians who think they are merely getting in their way.”
5 major crises facing the UK as Boris Johnson jets off to holiday in Spain
Industry leaders have warned that factories face closure within days without government help.
Boris Johnson slammed for jetting off to ‘£25,000-a-week Marbella hideaway’ during energy crisis
“The timing couldn’t be worse. But it’s like he doesn’t even care. He’s got an 80-seat majority and he just thinks everything will be fine.”
EXCLUSIVE: Voters think police have a problem with class bias, poll finds
‘It is a reality that across the socioeconomic spectrum, working class communities are policed disproportionately, with those who are working class being identified as potentially criminal far more often than their middle class counterparts’.