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First Legal Challenge Against Post-Brexit Trade Agreement Launched
Stephen Delahunty reports on a lawsuit being brought before for the courts to consider the legality of the UK-Morocco Association Agreement
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Home Office Pushing Through Changes to Detention Without Any Public Debate or Scrutiny
Shahed Ezaydi reports on a change to immigration detention laws which campaigners fear would put the victims of trafficking at greater risk of harm
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ME and Long COVID: When Will Our Exhausted Cries Be Heard?
Reverend Joe Haward shares his experiences of having ME and explores the challenges patients face in getting the reality of their lives with the disease heard by professionals and those in positions of power
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Recovery and Renewal: Emerging From the COVID Cocoon
Neha Maqsood considers the individual and collective experiences of the past year, which she argues should inform our post-pandemic existence
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The ‘Phantom Threat’: University Free Speech Policy Only Based on ‘Small’ Amount of Evidence, Government Admits
Sam Bright unpicks the evidence, relied on by ministers, for their new clampdown on academic institutions
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‘Treat Violence Against Women As A National Emergency’
With new data from the Office for National Statistics exposing the extent of sexual violence in England and Wales, Sian Norris explores possible steps forward
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America Can End its Mass Shootings by Treating Violent Attacks like a Contagious Virus
CJ Werleman reports on the third mass shooting in a week in America in Boulder, Colorado, and explores how the country could start to stop such events happening with alarming frequency
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Boris Johnson’s Toxic Domestic Posturing Over Nuclear Weapons is Threatening Britain’s Global Leadership Status
The Prime Minister’s strongman antics make a mockery of his ‘Global Britain’ mantra, says Ben Donaldson
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Where’s Gove? Minister Accused of Being ‘Contemptuous’ by MPs After Committee Appearance Snub
The Cabinet Office Minister has been pilloried for failing to appear before a parliamentary committee that has been investigating the Government’s lockdown decisions
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Conservative Lord’s £100 Million Link to Private Government Contractor
The Tory peer and senior Cabinet Office official appears to have benefitted financially from a firm that has won millions in public sector contracts
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‘Uncomfortable Conversations’ Need to be had About Why Murder of Two Black Sisters ‘Hardly Made the News’, Says MP
Dawn Butler spoke to Hardeep Matharu about why the culture of policing and its interaction with race must become part of the wider conversations being had around women’s rights and criminal justice
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Revealed: The Pay Disparities in Social Care
As the Supreme Court rejects an attempt to pay care workers for ‘sleep-in’ shifts, Sian Norris reports on the pay disparities in a highly gendered workforce
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A Roadmap to Easing Inequalities for the Learning Disabled
Saba Salman speaks to people with learning disabilities to explore how the Government can prevent this group from being sidelined again – as they have been during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Huw Edwards, His Flag and How the BBC’s Appeasement of its Enemies Backfired
The corporation’s biggest mistake was to court and give a platform to extreme voices, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse
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Interim Stalking Protection Order Imposed on Tommy Robinson
The English Defence League founder turned up at the home of a journalist who was planning to write an article about him, the court heard
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Get the Bunting Out for Bonkers Britain 2021!
Otto English provides his assessment of how a country became consumed by a flag and lost its mind
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Boris Johnson Aide Supervised Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Thesis Inspired By ‘White Genocide’ Believer
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a toxic narrative is permeating British government and media to create an increasingly mainstream white nationalist echo chamber
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Moving Together: The Colonisation of Eastern Germany by the Far Right
Craig Stennett explores the latest social media tactic adopted by Germany’s neo-Nazi groups
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Strongman Politics and Culture Wars Purposefully Derail All Chances of Progress
In the past week, the police was deployed as an instrument in Boris Johnson’s increasingly authoritarian agenda, argues Maheen Behrana
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The Futility of ‘Global Britain’
Mike Buckley’s analysis of the Government’s foreign and defence policy review explores how moving away from Europe leaves the UK with unrealistic ambitions with regards to the rest of the world
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‘Brazil is a Threat to Humanity’: Bolsonaro’s Coronavirus Lockdown Sceptics
Monica Piccinini reports on how Covid denialism of the populist Brazilian government is fuelling a Coronavirus catastrophe for the whole of Latin America
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Meet the Campaigner Taking on the World’s Biggest Porn Platform
Laila Mickelwait says that the company allowed content featuring child sexual abuse and trafficking – and wants executives to be held to account
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Atlanta Murders: The Toxic Relationship Between White Supremacy and Misogyny
CJ Werleman explores the overlap in beliefs between the ideologies and how and why they combine with deadly results
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Vaccine Recruits ‘Taken For a Ride and Abandoned’ by NHS Body Speak Out
NHS Professionals has apologised to prospective non-healthcare vaccinators, who undertook hours of training yet haven’t been able to find work
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Football Index’s Collapse Reveals a Deeper Rot in the UK Gambling Industry
Customers are estimated to have lost £90 million, showing why proper regulation is more essential than ever, says John Lubbock
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The Government’s Ties to Racist ‘Hate’ Groups: Part One
Nafeez Ahmed reports on how an official counter-extremism advisor is on the pay-roll of funders behind far-right hate groups
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The 1945 Moment: Boris Johnson Should Follow Biden, Not Cameron and Osborne
Austerity failed Britain during the COVID-19 crisis, but the Government has not yet signalled a bold new vision for the UK’s economy, says Jonathan Portes
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Reform Without Funding?: Renewed Concerns Over Children’s Social Care Review
The Department for Education has made it clear that the head of the review will face funding constraints and operate under the watchful gaze of Government officials, reports Sam Bright
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‘An Extremely Dangerous Precedent’: Are the Conservatives Institutionalising Islamophobia?
Examining key appointments to Ofcom, the BBC and the Prevent review, Hamza Ali Shah argues that the Government appears to be more intent on rewarding intolerance to Muslims than investigating it
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‘Worst Education Secretary in a Generation’: Children Utterly Failed by Government’s Lack of COVID Contingency Planning, Report Finds
Nearly two-thirds of students classified as ‘disadvantaged’ received no help at all, in the form of mentors or laptops for online learning at home, the National Audit Office says
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Why is Sarah Everard’s Murder a Tipping Point?
Hardeep Matharu explores how the tragedy of Sarah Everard’s death has captured public attention in a way many other killings of women have not – and the questions this raises for us all
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Conservative Donor’s Firm Surpasses £200 Million in COVID-19 Contracts
The company has won two more contracts worth £46.1 million, Sam Bright reports
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‘A Decade of Savage Loss For All Syrians’: The Psychological Cost of Civil War
CJ Werleman speaks to the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross about a new report laying bare the immense human suffering caused by 10 years of conflict in Syria
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Policing Bill Criticised as ‘Misguided’ by Women’s Organisations
Sian Norris reports on reaction to the controversial Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill and accusations it ‘dismisses the needs of survivors’
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Women, Interrupted: The Reaction to Reclaim These Streets Shows How Women are Trivialised
Kat Cary explains how women have been met with doubt and hostility, even when organising a peaceful act of remembrance
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Anti-Lockdown Activists Co-Opt Vigils Against Male Violence
Footage from Saturday’s vigil for women threatened on the streets and Sunday’s protest appear to show anti-lockdown campaigners pushing their own agenda, Sian Norris reports
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26 Met Police Officers and Staff Arrested for Sexual Offences in Recent Years
London’s police force has faced repeated questions about its role in sexual misconduct allegations in recent years, reports Sam Bright
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Will the Editors Who Came Out Against Racism Now Walk the Walk?
Brian Cathcart argues that, if the discussion on how to tackle racism in the press only focuses again on the recruitment of journalists from minority communities, the chance for systemic change will be missed
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Parents are Being Forced to Send Children to Schools that have Not Been Made Safe
Mike Buckley reports on how the Government has wasted a year in providing COVID-19 protection for nearly nine million pupils
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Clapham Common Vigil: ‘It Changed Because of the Police’s Actions’
Women who attended Saturday’s disrupted vigil in Clapham Common share with Sian Norris their experiences of collective mourning and police aggression
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Peaceful Protests have Shaped Democracy – We Must Do Everything we can to Protect Them
With a Government crackdown on protests to be voted on imminently, frontline NHS doctor Meenal Viz explores how powerful taking a stand can be in speaking truth to power and enacting change
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Inspection of Grenfell Recovery Spending Pledged – But Local Concerns Remain
The council has committed to producing a dedicated financial report for the first time since the disaster, as many survivors and the bereaved say that funds have been squandered
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Joe Biden is Done with the Middle East
CJ Werleman explains why the new US President is pivoting his foreign policy toward the challenge of China
