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Beyond Division: ‘Multicultural Nationalism’ and the White Working-Class
Labour must find a solution to the divisions being exploited by Reform UK and the Conservatives – a broader cohesive idea of our nation needs to be consciously created
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Why the ‘Lack of Loyalty’ Trope in Lord Tebbit’s Cricket Test Didn’t Work
Whatever Norman Tebbit hoped to achieve by asking Asian immigrants which cricket team they would support to determine their ‘Britishness’ has failed spectacularly, argues Shamik Das
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‘Grassroots’ Pressure Group Opposing Equality Act Is Bankrolled by Tufton Street-Linked Funder
EXCLUSIVE: Supposedly independent campaign group Don’t Divide Us, is funded by body that has anonymously funnelled millions to right-wing groups
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‘The Government’s Call for Evidence on Islamophobia is a Rigged Box-Ticking Exercise’
Ministers are effectively blocking the voices of victims, while ‘soliciting those of the perpetrators’, argues the CEO of Muslim Engagement & Development, Linsay Taylor
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The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
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Non-Disabled People’s Delusions That Disability ‘Is Nothing To Do With Them’ Only Harm Disabled People
As Government cuts to disabled people’s benefits lead to more dehumanising rhetoric, Penny Pepper reminds us that disability is an embedded reality of human experience as much as it always has been
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Hundreds of Local Authorities Remain on the Brink of Bankruptcy, Despite Government Bailouts
An ageing population and successive cuts by the last Conservative Government have left local council budgets on the brink, reports David Hencke
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‘George Floyd Murder Gave Us Hope Things Would Change – But They’ve Changed for the Worse’
Five years on from the death that shocked the world, Shabna Begum explains how political denial and repressive legislation has made things worse for people of colour in the UK
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How French Activists Are Leading an ‘Urgent’ Fight Against the Surging Far Right
Melissa Chemam details the multifaceted resistance mobilising against far-right groups, Islamophobia and racism across the Channel
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‘Reform UK and the Rising Threat to Muslims and Minorities in Britain’
The rise of Reform should worry all of those who value justice and equality and the democratic fabric of this country
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‘Is a Sexuality-Blind Approach to Casting Theatre Roles Always the Right Approach?’
Sexuality is hard to define and actors should not be unduly confined when it comes to what parts are open to them, writes Tim Walker
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‘The Supreme Court Trans Verdict Is a Victory for Uncertainty, Division and Harassment’
Far from bringing “clarity”, this verdict will only create confusion, while putting trans people at risk, argues Helen Belcher
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‘Disability, Illness and Impairment are the Norms of Human History – Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again – how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure? Penny Pepper asks
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Ministry of Justice Slammed for Work Environment That Was ‘Intimidating, Hostile, Degrading and Humiliating’
The MoJ has been found guilty of racial discrimination, harassment, and constructive unfair dismissal, in a landmark case first exposed by Byline Times
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How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy
One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology and is already putting it into action
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‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Rachel Reeves’ Unimaginative Spring Statement Missed Its Moment’
The Chancellor could have turned this crisis into an opportunity for a radical shakeup of Britain’s relationship with Europe and the world, but instead reverted to economic orthodoxy, argues Simon Nixon
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The False Economies of Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement
There is nothing “responsible” about forcing hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, while putting even more strain on those public servants who will have to pick up the pieces, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Should Stop the Austerity Denial About These Cuts’
The uncomfortable truth about Starmer and Reeves’s economic project is it is grim for living standards, public services and recipients of welfare, and should be opposed by all, argues his former senior adviser Simon Fletcher
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‘The Sullivan Review Treats Trans People as an Inconvenience Whose Experiences Can Be Dismissed as Invalid’
The Government has accepted a skewed report authored by people with ‘no skin in the game’, argues Helen Belcher
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‘The Media is Misreporting Why People Aren’t Having Children’
These are the real reasons birthrates are falling, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
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British Muslim Network Launches Amid Rising Far-Right Threat and Record High Islamophobia in the UK
Initiative backed by Baroness Warsi and Nusrat Ghani MP aims to bring Muslim perspectives to issues beyond just extremism and security
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‘How Powerful Racist Parties Are Weaponising Political Antisemitism’
Antisemitism shouldn’t be a contested issue, It’s racist hate and it’s on the rise, writes Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
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Complexity Is Reality – But There’s No Possibility For It In Today’s Political Culture
One of the biggest triumphs of the modern political right has been to close the space in which nuance and ambiguity can even sit, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Is the Met Police Targeting Black Officers? Force Faces Questions Over ‘Cotton Pickers’ Ruling
An official report found Black police officers are much more likely to be subject to internal misconduct investigations than their white counterparts
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‘My Name Is Levi Davis and My Life Is in Danger’ – Reopening the Case of the Rugby Star Who Disappeared
Part One of a five part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem
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Damning Report Exposes the Sheer Scale of Britain’s Crumbling Public Sector Left by the Conservatives
It blows a hole in the party’s claim to have ‘fixed the roof while the sun is shining’
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Special Needs Child Provision in Crisis as 40% of Local Authorities Risk Going Bust
There is a looming crisis of growing special needs requirements and threatened council bankruptcies, according to a damning new report by MPs
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Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice
The Conservative Party leader’s refusal to criticise the X owner’s dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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‘Litany of Failures’ Exposed by Damning Report Revealing Huge Scale of Conservative Prisons Crisis Inherited by Keir Starmer
Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered
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Amsterdam Violence: ‘How the Media Fell Into Benjamin Netanyahu’s Trap’
How did media outlets allow the narrative about this story to become so quickly dominated by one side?
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Heart Attacks on the Rise After Conservative Reforms Reverse Progress on Tackling Silent Killer
A damning new report highlights a series of failures under the last Conservative Government
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Islamophobia Has Surged in the UK — Here’s How You Can Help Fight It
Islamophobia Awareness Month is a campaign which hopes that small, collective efforts can lead to large, systemic changes #IAM
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The ‘Hostile’ Deadline Forcing Refugees Into Destitution and Indignity on British Streets
Campaigners hope a proposed new law could bring an end to a system that puts vulnerable people into even more danger
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Kemi Badenoch Uncovered: Deregulation, Small-State Capitalism and Culture War Conservatism
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
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Fresh Evidence in Missing Levi Davis Cold Case Sparks Top-Level Calls for New Probe
Dan Evans and Tom Latchem reveal fresh evidence in one of the most baffling missing person cases of recent years
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Americans Struggling With Unprecedented Housing Crisis are ‘Scared and Afraid’ Trump will Make Life Even More Unaffordable
The economy is the most important issue for voters in the US Presidential Elections, with 40 million people living below the poverty line and new homelessness records being set.
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The Government has a Way of Tackling Entrenched Health Inequalities Ready To Go – Will It Implement It?
An evidence-led, long-called for, but under-used programme of checks for people with a learning disability has the potential to help ease health inequalities more widely, Saba Salman reports
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Why Yvette Cooper’s Claim That Middle East Conflict is Behind UK Hate Crime Spike ‘Completely Misses the Point – The Problem Runs Far Deeper’
A Home Office report on October 10 found that nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims
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#MediaWatch: Sky Slammed for ‘Enabling Hate’ by Selling Ads for GB News for Years
Campaigners blast media giant for ‘supporting’ right-wing channel accused of fuelling racist riots, despite Sky’s claims of backing diversity
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Labour’s October Budget Risks Return to Austerity, Campaigners Warn – Amid Reports of Major Spending Cuts
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being urged to borrow to invest amid claims that billions of pounds in cuts to investment is planned
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‘Keir Starmer is Playing Right Into his Political Opponents’ Hands’
The Labour leader’s failure to define his own Premiership is allowing his enemies to do it for him
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Government Urged to ‘Stop Ignoring’ Plight of Single Parents as it Begins Work to Combat UK’s Child Poverty Crisis
An estimated 4.3 million youngsters are growing up in poverty and those living in single-parent families often struggle the most to secure help
