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From Operation Iraqi Freedom to Iranian Domination
Twenty years on from the US invasion, Lorraine Mallinder assesses the ongoing political struggle against corruption and talks to those exposing it
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‘There were Nine Armed Officers… If It Wasn’t for the Car’s Cameras, they would have Done Everything and Anything’
Professional athlete Ricardo Dos Santos recalls his experience of discriminatory policing last year in London
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‘The BBC’s Pursuit of Bogus ‘Impartiality’ Finally Crashes and Burns’
After years of appeasing its enemies, former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse believes the BBC’s destruction from within has been spectacularly exposed
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MPs links to Christian Nationalism Revealed
Karam Bales looks at the senior British Conservatives appearing at the National Conservatism Conference with its international right wing network, from Peter Thiel to Viktor Orbán
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‘Where Tunisia Leads, Britain Follows’
Tunisia’s populism and racially-charged purges offers chilling context for the UK’s migration clampdown, writes Simon Speakman Cordall
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Disabled Life: Crippled by Confusion, Banished by Barriers
Penny Pepper wears her bloody, beaten heart on her tattered sleeve in this powerful snapshot of the constraints imposed upon disabled people
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‘Cabinet Reshuffles Won’t Fix this Government’s Net Zero Failures’
Thomas Perrett looks at the Whitehall changes over environmental policy, and sees a lot of deckchairs being re-arranged which fail to address the climate emergency
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Ofcom Does Nothing as Complainant is Threatened With Violence
When Dr Ella Cockbain complained to the broadcast regulator that the GBNews channel encourages violent hatred, she was subjected to it on social media. Brian Cathcart reports
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‘Is There Any Comparison Between Braverman’s Migration Bill and Nazi Germany?’
Brad Blitz looks at the storm of controversy over Gary Lineker’s comments on the Illegal Migration Bill, and while he finds no evidence of Nazi policy, does hear echoes of fascist rhetoric
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Gary Lineker, Andrew Neil and the BBC’s Real Impartiality Crisis
Prominent right-wingers at the BBC have long been given the sort of leeway for their views that those on the left never will, writes Adam Bienkov
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Photo Essay: Civilian Life on the Eastern Front
Film-maker Paul Conroy visits the villages close to the front line of Bakhmut to see how ordinary Ukrainians are coping with constant shelling
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‘Threatening to Leave the ECHR would be the Perfect Terrain for Next Conservative Election Campaign’
The Government may do just enough to rile up the Conservative Party’s voter base by engineering yet another pointless row with European bodies, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Staggering onto Bakhmut: Russia’s Culmination Point
While Russia’s winter offensive crawls onward at a tremendous cost in blood and armaments, Paul Niland assesses the strategic position as a Ukrainian counter-offensive looms
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New Strategic Realities: A Rising India and Declining Britain
Chris Ogden – a consultant on the recent BBC documentary series examining the record of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – explores why the West appears to be silent on the authoritarianism unfolding in the world’s largest democracy
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Compassion-Free Conservatism: ‘Suella Braverman Uses Vote Leave Playbook Against Vulnerable Refugees’
The new ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ is using the same dishonest tactics used to take Britain out of the EU to secure the Conservatives a fifth election victory, writes Adam Bienkov
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UN Ocean Treaty: ‘A Step Forward, but Achieving Action will be the Real Test’
Many countries fail to protect, or even actively exploit, their coastal marine reserves – how will new initiatives be different?
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‘Britain Must Meet its Historic Responsibility to Hong Kong’
The UK Government must do more to stand against the curtailing of democracy by Beijing in the former British colony – and fulfil its legal and moral responsibilities, writes Lord Alton
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Channel Crossings: Government ‘Whipping Up Hatred’ with ‘Unworkable’ Asylum Plans
Lauren Crosby Medlicott reports on Rishi Sunak’s new law banning people entering the UK ‘illegally’ from claiming asylum or re-entering in the future
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‘Sunak’s Anti-Asylum Bill Could Pit Britain Against the United Nations’
The Prime Minister’s law will stand in defiance of the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writes Brian Latham
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‘Oakeshott, the Telegraph and Unscientific Anti-Lockdown Propaganda’
Kate Denkinson looks at the background to Isabel Oakeshott’s Lockdown Files and the newspaper which Boris Johnson once claimed was his ‘real boss’
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A Mysterious New Addition to the Tufton Street Clique
Max Colbert explores a new company which has just joined the collective of free-market, Brexit, and climate science-denying dark money groups at 55 Tufton Street
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‘Courts of Conscience and the Climate Emergency’
Tom Hardy explores the role of the judiciary in combatting the climate emergency as activists are prohibited from mentioning the issue in their defence in court
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Grant Shapps’ Latest Anti-Union Law ‘Likely to Be Struck Down’ in Embarrassing Blow
The Minimum Service Levels Bill is ‘almost certainly’ against international law – meaning any fines or sackings would be thrown out, according to a leading labour lawyer
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No Shades of Gray: Privileges Committee Report Exposes Boris Johnson’s ‘Partygate’ Lies
A damning new report blows apart the former Prime Minister’s claims to have been ‘stitched-up’ over the scandal of lockdown parties in Downing Street, reports Adam Bienkov
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The Presence of Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland has Again Become Normalised
The recent attempted murder of an off-duty police detective in Omagh was not an isolated incident, reports Emma De Souza
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Aviation Growth and Decarbonisation: A Circle You Can’t Square
A new report casts further doubt over the Government’s Jet Zero strategy and its inherent contradictions, reports Andrew Taylor-Dawson
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‘Towering Wealth Mountain of the Super-Rich Could Help Fund Social Reconstruction for the Many’
There is an historic opportunity for a progressive sea-change to reset today’s productivity sapping and inequality driving economic model, writes Stewart Lansley
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Explosive WhatsApp Exchanges Expose Contempt for Teachers During Pandemic
Unions have described the exchanges between former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson as “sneering” and “ugly”, reports Sian Norris
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‘My Life Just Stopped’: Punishing Immigration Rule Leaves Families in Limbo
Sian Norris speaks to a family who will have been in the UK 33 years before they are granted indefinite leave to remain
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Uyghurs Find Out What Happened to Missing Loved Ones in Xinjiang
For many Uyghur families, a new search tool has allowed them to find vital pieces of information – but many urge the international community to do more, reports Tasnim Nazeer
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‘Anglo-British Unionism Will Not Save the Union’
Only when England can see itself as England will it be possible to challenge the idea that Britain is England, writes former Labour MP John Denham
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The Public Needs Answers on BBC Chairman Richard Sharp’s Donations to Groups Campaigning Against BBC
Pressure is mounting on the Johnson-appointed BBC Chairman – but no answers have been forthcoming from him or the corporation, reports Josiah Mortimer
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‘Incompetent Ministers and Duplicitous Journalists:’ The Matt Hancock Leaks
Isabel Oakeshott’s exposé comes in the wake of repeated rejections by the Government of every Freedom of Information request on the disclosure of ministers’ use of WhatsApp for official business, reports Iain Overton
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Rishi Sunak Refuses to Commit to Releasing his US Tax Returns
The Prime Minister has repeatedly delayed the release of his financial statements, originally promised last year, reports Adam Bienkov
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Six Ways Ukraine is Winning – Clubbing in a War Zone: Kyiv’s Music Scene
In a country at war, the simple club night has become a symbol of resistance, a source of mental rejuvenation and even a way to help bring victory closer. Violence often visits the capital Kyiv, in short bursts maybe once or twice a week in the form of cruise missiles and kamikaze drones that send…
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Front Page Favours, Bungs and Relief: More Details Emerge of Press’ Cosy COVID Relationship with Government
More evidence emerges that, while Boris Johnson’s Government stepped in to prop up his old employers in the press during the pandemic, the favour was returned with helpful coverage
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Vodafone HQ Cleaners ‘Threatened with Blacklisting’ Over Protests at Outsourcing Giant
Outsourced Vodafone HQ cleaners face ‘victimisation’ after pushing for higher pay while cleaning next to millionaire boss, Josiah Mortimer reports
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Equality Groups Demand Structural Racism be Considered in COVID Inquiry
A coalition of experts and civil society groups have warned that unless structural racism is included in the COVID inquiry, we will lose the opportunity to learn lessons and save lives
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Rishi Sunak’s Brexit Deal Shows what Britain Lost by Leaving the EU
In seeking praise for repairing some of the damage caused by Brexit, Rishi Sunak’s revised deal only highlights what we lost through cutting ties with the EU, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘Are You Paying for this Room?’ Three Years of Far-Right Attacks on Migrant Hotels
The riot outside a hotel in Knowsley housing asylum seekers was the inevitable outcome of a long-standing organised campaign, Sian Norris reports
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‘With the Northern Ireland Protocol Deal, Sunak has Recognised Peace is Hard and Conflict is Deadly’
Do Boris Johnson, David Frost and the ERG want Northern Ireland to be stuck in a similar spiral of distrust and possible resumption of violence as the Israelis and Palestinians, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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HGV-Lobby Funded Group Faces Parliamentary Investigation Over Transparency ‘Rule Breaches’
A controversial parliamentary group failed to disclose its list of ‘active members’ among other potential breaches, Josiah Mortimer reports
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‘It’s Made Me Lose Trust in People’: Women and Girls Victimised by Image-Based Abuse
New research has found that non-consensual sharing of intimate images bear many of the hallmarks of domestic abuse
