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A Metropolitan Police officer approaches Just Stop Oil activists as they demonstrate on Highbury Corner in north London on November 30, 2022. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

2 Dec 2022 4 minute read

Is England sliding further towards authoritarianism?

Stronger policing powers, harsher sentences and higher fines. Democratic protest is under threat from Westminster, as the...

16 Jun 2021 6 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

The kids are not alright

Joe Ballesteros investigates the pandemic-compounded crisis in educational provision for England’s most...

A child demonstrates against the mining industry's claims that the West Cumbria Mine (and others) are carbon neutral. Credit: Coal Action Network

10 Feb 2021 6 minute read

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A new frontier for UK coal?

Daniel Therkelsen of Coal Action Network looks at how plans for the mine made it this far and how local...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a press conference on 16 March, with Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Witty and Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance. Picture by Andrew Parsons

20 Nov 2020 4 minute read

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UK’s military spending boost will make the world more dangerous

Boris Johnson announces billions for the defence industry, peanuts for climate action and nothing to tackle child poverty,...

18 Jun 2020 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots

The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global...

Protestors from Global Justice Now demonstrate outside the Home Office in London demanding an end to the Hostile Environment policy, ahead of parliamentary debate on the Windrush scandal. April, 2018. David Mirzoeff/Global Justice Now

26 Apr 2020 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

The hostile environment in housing

Minnie Rahman on the legal fight against the British government’s racist ‘right to rent’ policy.

DFID and the UK parliament should – at the very least – insist that investments of the kind the summit is promoting – especially those funded through ODA – are measured against a rigorous ‘development impact’ framework; that they demonstrably tackle poverty, inequality and the climate crisis, and that the money could not be spent better.

18 Jan 2020 4 minute read

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For-profit investments are not ‘development’

The British government plans to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands – and away from the world’s poorest, warns Labour...

Police officers detain an activist as they block the road during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Bank, in the City of London, Britain October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

15 Jan 2020 4 minute read

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How counter-terror police quash dissent

Kevin Blowe on how allegations of extremism are used to discredit social movements in the United Kingdom....

Dejected Labour party members after a disasterous UK General Election

13 Dec 2019 4 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

So where on Earth do we go from here?

Chris Brazier tries to see beyond the wreckage of the UK’s 2019 election.

9 Dec 2019 8 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

This election is a battle for Britain’s soul

Nick Dearden examines what’s at stake in the UK general election, and how the result is likely to impact...

6 Nov 2019 4 minute read

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Ken Loach: poverty doesn’t occur ‘by accident’

The socialist filmmaker explains how his anti-austerity politics translates to the big screen.

27 Aug 2019 3 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

‘A very British coup’

Boris Johnson’s shutdown of parliament could spark an early general election, but that’s nothing to feel sanguine about.

11 Mar 2019 7 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

European Commission gives boost to Vietnamese timber launderers

A treaty signed by the European Commission legitimized a Vietnamese government agency that facilitated the theft of roughly...

26 Feb 2019 5 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Chagossians urge caution over UN legal win

The United Nations International Court of Justice has ruled that Britain should hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius....

18 Mar 2019 7 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Corbyn vs the nation

Jeremy Corbyn is an internationalist. But the British economy is hardwired to extract profit from the Global South. ...

14 Jan 2019 1 minute read

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Looking through Five Eyes

Britain’s spies and special forces are some of the most secretive in the Western world. Phil Miller reports...

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