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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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Feminists on the front line: Meet the new anti-fascist group taking on the far right

Ava Caradonna
23 November, 2018

They’re the new activist group who took on the Democratic Football Lads Alliance. And now they’re gearing up to oppose the far-right’s ‘racialisation’ of sexual violence.

Ministers said a blanket ban on psychoactive substances would solve the ‘legal high’ problem. The Home Office just proved them wrong

Martin Powell
23 November, 2018

A new Home Office report shows the Tories’ drug strategy is failing on its own terms.

With Matthew Hedges now jailed for life, we need an academic boycott of the UAE

Joe Odell
22 November, 2018

Eleven British universities have branches in the UAE. It may be time for them to rethink their involvement.

Diane Abbott: Austerity in police funding hasn’t ended – but it needs to

Diane Abbott
22 November, 2018

You can’t keep people safe on the cheap, says Diane Abbott

Campaigners claim victory as arms fair leaves Cardiff

Joe Lo
22 November, 2018

But organisers blame mysterious “logistical reasons”

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Britain’s political system is built for a privileged few. A citizens convention can change that

Sam Coates
21 November, 2018

The current political uncertainty gives us a chance to build a true democracy – if enough of us demand it.

If you really care about mental health at work, you should be suspicious of these Tory plans

Janet Newsham
21 November, 2018

Without an overhaul of workplace rights, Tory plans for Mental Health First Aid are barely a sticking plaster.

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How new DWP chief Amber Rudd is in denial over Britain’s poverty crisis

Kevin Gulliver
21 November, 2018

Why was the new Work and Pensions boss’ first Parliamentary statement to reject the United Nation’s findings on poverty?

NHS Trust taken to court after dropping potential contract with company owned by Grenfell cladding firm

Josiah Mortimer
21 November, 2018

The company say the Trust scrapped the tendering process due to ‘political pressure’ from Jeremy Corbyn and campaigners.

Why can’t we let Steve Bannon speak? Because when he does fascists resurface

Joana Ramiro
20 November, 2018

The godfather of the alt-right appeared at the Oxford Union last week. Suddenly swastikas started appearing on the town’s walls.

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