On Monday 1 September, the Association of Leading Genocide Scholars announced that Israel’s policies in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide, according to the association’s president. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza According to Reuters, the decision was supported by 8...
The Labour Party government’s war on chronically ill and disabled people is only just getting started. After the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rammed through its brutal cuts to Universal Credit, and backlash forced it to shelve its plans to slash access to Personal Independence Pa...
Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – has once again attracted criticism for its treatment of women and children. According to a report from Reuters, the company allowed and facilitated the creation of chatbots which imitated celebrities like “Taylor Swift, Scarl...
The Gaza Strip is witnessing alarming health developments, with thousands of cases of a mysterious illness whose nature has not yet been determined, at a time when the health system is suffering from near-total collapse due to Israel’s genocide and its ongoing siege that has lasted for mor...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that 660,000 children in the Gaza Strip are out of school for the third consecutive year due to Israel’s ongoing war of genocide that has been raging for 23 months. Meanwhile, the West Bank is preparing to open ...
A group of pro-independence organisations have said there is “space for a new left party in Scotland” as Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana launch the founding process for a new socialist party. Space in Scotland for an independent ‘Your Party’ The newly-formed Platform for Socialism & In...
In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffry Ep...
On Sunday 31 August, the Daily Mail published a front page criticising the tax affairs of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner. While we agree it’s fair game for honest journalists to question the government, we’re not so sure anyone who works for the Daily Mail could consider themselves an...
Environmental group Coal Action Network has obtained expert legal advice that reveals that the UK government’s coal licence ban bill seriously risks failing in its aim to stop all new coal mining in the UK. This would be an embarrassment for the Labour government, who is expected to announ...
Gary Stevenson is an economist and former trader who’s one of the UK’s leading proponents for wealth taxes. In his latest video via Gary’s Economics, he’s taken apart the “childish” arguments against the UK implementing a wealth tax. He also gives reason to be optimistic about the future. ...
