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Covering woke world affairs, ideas and culture with a left leaning bias.

The veteran Tory and City lobbyist advising Starmer’s business team

21 February 2025 @ 10:26 am

Iain Anderson’s newfound love for Labour has raised eyebrows across Westminster and worried some in the party

The UK could be at the forefront of the climate revolution. Here’s how

20 February 2025 @ 10:19 am

The action needed is affordable and would be politically prudent for the Labour Party

Trump wants the ethnic cleansing of Gazans. Will it happen?

17 February 2025 @ 10:43 am

Global public opinion is biggest obstacle to Trump and Netanyahu’s plan, with Israel already seen as a pariah state

Harsh UK visa schemes leave Ukrainian families in limbo and torn apart

14 February 2025 @ 11:21 am

Three years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, refugees in the UK face uncertainty, displacement and separation

Counter-smuggling is cruel and ineffective. Can we imagine a better system?

13 February 2025 @ 11:06 am

Human smugglers thrive off the vulnerability created by migration policies – but it doesn’t have to be this way

Ukraine and the return of Empire

12 February 2025 @ 11:12 am

Volodymyr Yermolenko on what will happen to the world if Russia wins their war against Ukraine

Bodies Under Siege: What's actually behind the Far Right's anti-women agenda?

12 February 2025 @ 11:12 am

Sian Norris on the rising global far right's dependance on exploiting women.

Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point

7 February 2025 @ 5:55 pm

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer appear happy to pursue growth at any cost – including the destruction of the planet

Revolutionise social assistance by learning to trust

4 February 2025 @ 10:21 am

Welfare almost always comes with strings attached. Imagine what would happen if it didn't

‘I feared I would die’: Inside Uganda’s cervical cancer crisis

4 February 2025 @ 8:56 am

Women in rural Uganda are dying as patriarchal violence and misinformation drive cervical cancer cases