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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
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Keir and Loathing: Proudly Unpopular Starmer Gives Labour Supporters Little to Cheer About
The Prime Minister’s conference speech did little to lift the mood of disappointment and unease surrounding his fledgling administration
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Class Acts: Why We Need More Blue Collar MPs in Parliament – and the Campaign to Make it Happen
New cross-party campaign aims to increase the number of MPs from working-class backgrounds, challenging the dominance of legal and lobbying professions in politics
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Back of the Class: How Theatre has Become a Game of Youth and Privilege
Tamsin Flower examines why older working-class voices are disappearing from performing arts and theatre
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Police Anti-Racism Initiative Slammed for ‘Shocking’ Decision to Hold Back £1.8 Million in Funding
Black police chief says the shortfall shows ‘why our members feel that things have got worse over the last four years’
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Labour Needs the Muslim Vote to Stabilise its ‘Sandcastle Majority’
Sufyan Gulam Ismail offers some advice on how Labour can win back British Muslim voters after losing so many over the issue of Gaza
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‘Rushed’ Airport Sell-Off Sparks Anger as Councils Push Through Privatisation to Plug Shortfalls
Concern is growing over a Conservative-led council’s opaque plans to privatise Cornwall Newquay Airport. It’s part of a bigger picture across England
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Hate Sells: ‘The Spectator Cannot Defend Douglas Murray But It Won’t Sack Him’
Cutting ties with the controversial columnist and the magazine’s Associate Editor would be bad for business – and it is hard not to conclude that it must agree with him, writes Brian Cathcart
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‘How the Conservative Party Helped Cause the Riots and why Their Islamophobic Rhetoric Won’t Change’
Ironically, the riots during a leadership election give the party a unique opportunity to turn a page and turn their back on Farage-type populism. The signs are they will not take that opportunity
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Reform UK Facebook Groups Rife with Far-Right Sentiment and Support for Riots
From conspiracy theories to spats over Tommy Robinson, Reform UK supporter groups are kicking off amid Britain’s racist riots
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‘Anti-Muslim’ – Isn’t There a Word for That?
How the media spent days failing to call the far-right riots exactly what they were – Islamophobic
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The Real ‘Two Tier’ Politics That Enabled Nigel Farage to Fan the Flames of Hate
The politics of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred pushed by the Reform leader and his supporters has been tolerated for far too long
