The UK left is fucking tired. We are slow, bureaucratic, and too often are waiting for an invitation to the table that will never come. Yet whilst a lot of the older guard is fussing over procedure and policy, a brand new force has erupted onto the scene. And they’re so shockingly effectiv...
Well, kicking out the SWP the night before the conference was a fucking bad decision for ‘Your Party.’ Your Party conference: it’s not going well I came to this conference this morning full of hope. Last night, I saw Zarah Sultana’s rally, and every single speaker was vibrant and full of h...
I’m sure most of us have seen Adolescence by now. It was fucking scary. Aggression in schools, lost and lonely kids being radicalised by their phones, and behaviour going down the shitter. Yeah, the kids aren’t alright, but neither are the teachers, and I think we’ve forgotten about them. ...
If you’re from the North East of England, there’s a chance you know Mick. A local legend, clued up on everything left leaning, with a total disregard for authority. He’s had a colourful life, defined by his activism. Upon retiring he announced he’d be walking to Palestine. No one was surpr...
When the leader of the Greens, Zack Polanski, talks about the need for a compassionate, public health approach to drugs, I hear the echo of a lifeline that comes too late for so many. The real cost of the criminalisation of drugs I am in my mid-thirties, from a Northern town ripped apart b...
Content warning: this article contains discussions around violence, sexual assault and rape, suicide, and extreme misogyny that some readers may find distressing ‘Is rape actually traumatic for a female?’ What a fucking question to start my morning with. The single, jaw-dropping question, ...
Newcastle city centre felt like the theatre of the absurd on Saturday, 1 November. On the chilly early afternoon in front of the New Bridge Hotel, the familiar characters from the far right trudged onto the stage. While the mainstream media would likely gloss over it as just another clash ...
Sainsbury’s has started using facial recognition in two of its stores, apparently to “crack down on shoplifting.” But let’s call the new machines that have been installed in one store apiece in Bath and London exactly what they are: the eye of Big Brother. A Live Facial Recognition (LFR) c...
The central hall in the Dolphin in Darlington wasn’t just a venue on Friday evening, it was an anomaly. In this tiny, post-industrial town in the north, the population has been lost for a long time, reeling from the fall of the ‘Red Wall,’ and desperate for change. Years of lack of funding...
Before I start this article, I would like to preface that I had never even been to Hulme before, let alone to The World Transformed, and I went in thinking it would be the same as many Labour-supportive events I’ve attended before. Being the first year the festival had split its affiliatio...