- — We need to have an honest conversation about ‘foreign agent’ laws
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at 3/29/23 12:33pmPushback against ‘foreign agent’ laws in Georgia should not stop us from asking whether countries have a right to limit foreign influence- — Here’s how Humza Yousaf can deliver a fairer, greener Scotland
- at 3/29/23 5:22amAfter 16 years in power, the SNP is stagnating. With these 16 policies, the new first minister can change that
- — The US’s anti-drag movement is state-sponsored LGBTIQ persecution
- at 3/29/23 3:02amOPINION: Tennessee’s ban on drag in the presence of minors is a ‘gateway law’ to harsher anti-LGBTQ repression
- — Are humanitarian visas the solution to the UK’s ‘small boats’ crisis?
- at 3/29/23 1:26amCompromising on humanitarian visas could allow the Illegal Migration Bill to end territory-based asylum in the UK
- — UK’s extreme weather support for rough sleepers labelled ‘inadequate’
- at 3/29/23 12:01amExclusive: A new report has warned homelessness services in the UK are not prepared for the climate crisis
- — UK's extreme weather support for rough sleepers labelled ‘inadequate’
- at 3/29/23 12:01amExclusive: A new report has warned homelessness services in the UK are not prepared for the climate crisis
- — UK's extreme weather support for rough sleepers labelled 'inadequate'
- at 3/29/23 12:01amExclusive: A new report has warned homelessness services in the UK are not prepared for the climate crisis
- — More women in the police won’t reduce police violence
- at 3/28/23 10:05amOPINION: Focusing on the gender of officers is misleading – violence and intimidation are integral to policing
- — Somali families say they’re being forced out of east London community
- at 3/28/23 8:40amTower Hamlets residents say they are being overlooked for social housing and accused the council of discrimination
- — ‘Night and day we cry’: A family’s year in an asylum seeker hotel
- at 3/28/23 2:44amAs a new report labels asylum accommodation ‘de-facto detention’, a mother details her family’s struggle
- — ‘Night and day we cry’: A family's year in an asylum seeker hotel
- at 3/28/23 2:44amAs a new report labels asylum accommodation “de-facto detention”, a mother details her family's struggle
- — What will the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill really do to trafficking survivors?
- at 3/28/23 2:01amThis legislation is going to make some traffickers very happy
- — What will the UK's Illegal Migration Bill really do to trafficking survivors?
- at 3/28/23 2:01amThis legislation is going to make some traffickers very happy
- — New film focuses on love – not war – in Nagorno-Karabakh
- at 3/27/23 5:29amThe Dream of Karabakh, about a woman’s attachment to her village, is rooted in personal memories that cannot be moved, unlike borders
- — Ukraine's fight for economic justice
- at 3/27/23 4:09amRussian aggression is driving Ukrainians into poverty. But the war could also be an opportunity to reset the Ukrainian economy – if only people and politicians could agree how. The danger is that wartime ‘reforms’ could ease a permanent shift to a smaller state – with less regulation and protection for citizens.Our speakers will help you unpack these issues and explain why support for Ukrainian society is more important than ever.
- — Ofcom must crack down on the Conservative Party love-ins on GB News and TalkTV
- at 3/27/23 2:08amOPINION: Will the regulator allow two Tory MPs to interview a Tory chancellor about a Tory Budget on a news channel?
- — Home Office delays are stopping families reuniting after the Türkiye earthquake
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at 3/27/23 12:16amTurkish and Kurdish people in Britain say they are unable to help loved ones affected by last month's earthquake because of UK immigration delays - — Could Putin’s war crimes charges give ICC more authority over Western leaders?
- at 3/25/23 12:01amOPINION: Comparisons between destruction in Iraq and Ukraine could boost the International Criminal Court’s authority in the West
- — What Tennessee’s LGBTIQ history tells us about its new ‘drag’ ban
- at 3/24/23 7:19amA Tennessee drag queen and LGBTIQ+ historian explain a new law that will ban drag shows in the state from April
- — Tennessee moves to ban ‘drag’, forgetting its LGBTIQ+ history
- at 3/24/23 7:19amA Tennessee drag queen and LGBTIQ+ historian explain a new law that will ban drag shows in the state from April
- — UK accused of ‘washing its hands’ of Iraqi refugees
- at 3/24/23 6:24amJust a tenth of Iraqis claiming asylum in the UK have been given refugee status since the war
- — Ministers blocked my questions on why they let a warlord sue a journalist
- at 3/24/23 5:25amLIAM BYRNE: The government must be transparent about its decision to waive sanctions against Yevgeny Prigozhin
- — We can't let landlords define the narrative on renting
- at 3/24/23 5:03amOPINION: Thought landlords were selling up and making it even harder to rent? Think again
- — Christian fundamentalism lies behind harsh new anti-LGBTIQ bill in Uganda
- at 3/23/23 12:20pmOnly two MPs voted against Uganda’s anti-LGBT bill, passed this week. We talk to one of them, Fox Odoi-Oywelowo
- — What you need to know about Uganda’s anti-LGBTIQ bill
- at 3/23/23 12:19pmUganda will have among the most draconian anti-LGBTIQ legislation in Africa if the bill becomes law
- — How Boris Johnson raked in £5m in 6 months after leaving office
- at 3/23/23 8:16amThe former prime minister has made over £25,000 a day in outside earnings since he left Downing Street
- — Whistleblowers pay the price for speaking up. A new law could protect them
- at 3/23/23 6:04amPeople who speak out about wrongdoing in the workplace can often face blacklisting, harassment and legal action. Proposed legislation aims to change that
- — Fortress Europe’s role in Tunisia’s anti-Black violence
- at 3/23/23 2:18amThe Tunisian president’s recent comments triggered racist violence against migrants, but there are other factors
- — Tory MPs’ rent expenses soar as they inflict real-terms housing benefit cut
- at 3/22/23 5:01pmExclusive: Tory MPs blamed rising rents for increased claims, while government inflicted freeze on poorest tenants
- — Breaking corporate monopolies is the only way to save democracy
- at 3/22/23 9:41amOPINION: Tackling our most pressing problems will require taking back the enormous power held by the 1%
- — Russia targets its oldest human rights group, Memorial
- at 3/22/23 9:09amMemorial ‘personifies’ Russia’s link to Europe. Little wonder then authorities are making their final moves against the organisation
- — Landlords aren’t leaving the market in droves, admits Tory housing minister
- at 3/22/23 8:56amRachel Maclean said the narrative being pushed by some MPs and the property sector is ‘wrong’
- — Hungary’s ‘perfect propaganda machine’ attacks women, report finds
- at 3/22/23 6:28amNew report highlights gendered disinformation online and calls for women-centred reform of social media platforms
- — Life in Russia: ‘War or no war, I still need to buy food'
- at 3/22/23 4:06amRussians far from the frontline – women, children, pensioners, the jobless – explain how the war is affecting them
- — ‘No truth’ in conviction of captured Ukrainian human rights activist
- at 3/22/23 3:11amColleagues of Maksym Butkevych say he wasn’t even in Russian-occupied Luhansk at the time of his supposed crime
- — Republicans still have ‘tremendous affection for dictators’
- at 3/22/23 3:02amOPINION: Putin may have fallen out of favour, but Republicans still admire right-wing authoritarian leaders
- — Scotland’s new first minister must defend devolution like none before
- at 3/21/23 11:33amOPINION: More than at any point since devolution, the Tories are trying to claw powers back from the Scottish parliament
- — Rishi Sunak supports expanding police powers despite damning Casey Report
- at 3/21/23 8:02amThe government is ‘confident’ in its decision to hand police new powers – despite scathing review of the Met Police
- — It’s time to abolish the Met Police
- at 3/21/23 5:02amOPINION: You can’t reform a system that’s doing exactly what it’s intended to do
- — Putin’s warlord planned new legal attack on BBC with UK government help
- at 3/21/23 4:55amYevgeny Prigozhin, who leads the notorious Wagner army, sought to attack the BBC two months before the Ukraine invasion
- — Are Senegal’s talibés religious scholars or child trafficking victims?
- at 3/21/23 2:01amIn 2013 a fire claimed the lives of religious students in Senegal. A decade on, the institution that had locked them inside is still resisting change
- — Invading Iraq is what we did instead of tackling climate change
- at 3/20/23 12:17pmOPINION: Instead of launching a war, the US and UK could have weaned us off the fossil fuels that pay for the brutal regimes of dictators
- — Borders & Belonging: Are Ukrainian refugees still ‘temporary’?
- at 3/20/23 11:00amMore than 8m Ukrainians are living elsewhere in Europe. What’s happening to them – and their host countries?
- — As a newly qualified nurse, I find the government’s 5% pay offer insulting
- at 3/20/23 10:18amOPINION: After tax, National Insurance, pension payments and student loan repayments, I’d get £15 extra a week
- — Airlines downplayed science on climate impact to block new regulations
- at 3/19/23 1:01amCampaigners say the lobbying tactics used to argue against tougher measures on emissions echo those of the 20th century tobacco industry
- — ‘20 years after Iraq, progressives must learn its lessons for Ukraine’
- at 3/19/23 12:01amLabour MP Clive Lewis: There is a crucial distinction between the UK’s imperialist wars, and Ukraine’s self-defence
- — Ukraine’s soldiers face drastic wage cuts as austerity bites
- at 3/18/23 10:39amSalary cuts will have a negative impact on their morale, preparedness and medical treatment, say soldiers
- — The Iraq War 20 years on: End of the US’s post-9/11 neoconservative dream
- at 3/18/23 12:01amThe 2003 Iraq war led to huge numbers of civilian deaths, and continuing insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa
- — Why Palantir’s latest NHS land-grab is such bad news for patients
- at 3/17/23 10:51amOPINION: Once Palantir is inside our health service, it will be hard to get rid of. The NHS should think carefully
- — Their anti-rape performance went viral globally. What next for LASTESIS?
- at 3/17/23 6:02amLASTESIS was part of a progressive movement in Chile. Then voters rejected the country’s new constitution. So now what?
- — Exclusive: NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm
- at 3/16/23 5:01pmPalantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’
- — Vulnerable renters ‘hounded’ by utility companies to pay off landlord debts
- at 3/16/23 6:27amThames Water has apologised for chasing a tenant who was recently homeless for his landlord’s bills
- — The EU needs to extend solidarity to Belarusian dissidents
- at 3/16/23 6:24amBelarusian civil society activists in exile in the EU need support, not restrictions and misperceptions
- — UK government lets airlines off the hook for £300m air pollution bill
- at 3/15/23 6:01pmThe government wrote off emissions equivalent to 400,000 passengers flying from London to Sydney and back in one year
- — What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification
- at 3/15/23 5:01pmFifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat
- — Don’t be fooled by childcare pledges, Hunt’s budget offers the bare minimum
- at 3/15/23 12:38pmOPINION: The chancellor failed to tackle the cost of living crisis, but threw money at big business and top earners
- — Cleaners are suing Great Ormond Street for alleged institutional racism
- at 3/15/23 10:38amEthnic minority hospital cleaners say they were denied NHS contracts and paid less than the majority-white NHS staff
- — Why cleaners are suing Great Ormond Street Hospital over institutional racism
- at 3/15/23 10:38amEthnic minority hospital cleaners say they were denied NHS contracts and paid less than the majority-white NHS staff
- — Student nurses ‘excluded’ from Jeremy Hunt’s free childcare
- at 3/15/23 6:56amExpansion of the free childcare scheme is supposed to help struggling families, but there are still barriers for trainee nurses
- — My friend was jailed for eight years for opposing Russia’s war
- at 3/15/23 5:48amDmitry Ivanov has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for speaking out. This is his story
- — The Republican Party is still in thrall to Trumpism, with or without Donald
- at 3/15/23 3:02amOPINION: There are no moderate Republican presidential candidates, as this year’s CPAC conference shows
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