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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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They’re striking to protect patients from the government’s dangerous policies

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Simon Perks
9 March, 2016

We should give this choice the respect and consideration that it deserves

Human rights can’t be traded away in negotiations with Turkey

Anneliese Dodds
9 March, 2016

EU funds provided to Turkey must be used to support those waiting for asylum, including Kurdish refugees

Comment: Labour transformed the way domestic violence was dealt with in Britain

Ellie Cumbo
9 March, 2016

For a new generation the ‘just a domestic’ approach taken by police for much of the 1980s and 1990s would be unrecognisable

Women in the UK still don’t have a legal right to abortion

Ellie Cumbo
9 March, 2016

Access to abortion remains limited and precarious. It’s time to legislate for the era we live in.

After the Paris Agreement the UK must help protect developing countries

Diane Abbott
9 March, 2016

Those who have contributed the least to climate change are suffering the greatest impacts

The EU-Turkey agreement oversimplifies the refugee crisis

Jill Rutter
8 March, 2016

The plan ignores international humanitarian laws guaranteeing the right to apply for asylum

London needs to double the number of houses being built

Kevin Gulliver
8 March, 2016

The London Housing Commission report has called for a devolution deal to confront the capital’s housing crisis

Women of colour deserve more from the political system

Maya Goodfellow
8 March, 2016

British society ignores the complex realities of what it is to be a minority ethnic woman

A party focused on gender equality? About time.

Lee Chalmers
8 March, 2016

The Women’s Equality Party was founded a year ago, fuelled by frustration at listening to the same old arguments but not seeing any change

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