Ahead of the Your Party conference this weekend, Jeremy Corbyn has railed against “top-down” politics. Instead, he wants “community power” at the heart of the new left party, with local organising “in the party’s DNA”. This, he stressed, is exactly “what the old parties are afraid of”. ‘Co...
If it came with a label, it would read: late, expensive and harmful to the very people it’s meant to protect. This describes the £5.5 billion Ajax British armoured fighting vehicle deal plagued by malfunctions and ongoing delays, the last of which was announced on Wednesday. After 15 years...
New government figures show a 9% increase in the number of care leavers who were threatened with homelessness from 2024-25. This was alongside a 6% increase in the number who were already homeless and therefore owed help from their local authority. These figures are worrying due to being s...
The latest quarterly hate crime figures in Northern Ireland have shown an alarming rise — a new police report entitled Incidents and Crimes with a Hate Motivation has found. Published in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, it tracks six-strands of hate c...
The refusal of Your Party (YP) conference organisers to give press access to a number of popular independent left news sites has sparked outrage among snubbed sites and their readers. And it’s with good reason given many of those sites were at the forefront of efforts to protect and promot...
Israeli occupation forces and the Shin Bet Security service are carrying out one of the largest military raids in more than two years, in Tubas, a northern occupied West Bank governorate near Jenin. The large scale invasion of the town and its surrounding villages began on Tuesday night, N...
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has succeeded in reversing a human rights-based ruling that allowed a family of Palestinian refugees fleeing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, to remain in the UK. The Court of Appeal backed Mahmood’s bid to prevent refugees using a scheme designed for (almost all w...
The Israeli occupation regime has released 16yo Palestinian-American Mohammed Ibrahim after abducting him in the occupied West Bank. Israel held him in ‘administrative detention’ for more than nine months without charge. Ibrahim is one of hundreds of children held captive by Israel in mili...
The Cypriot and Lebanese governments have signed a historic Mediterranean demarcation deal. The agreement would bring Lebanon closer to the EU and allow energy resources to be exploited. The deal follows an agreement between Cyprus and Israel to steal Palestinian energy resources, pumping ...
Budapest’s winter is very typical of Central Europe. It’s frequently dipping below freezing, meaning it flitters between grey rain and clear snow. While cold, it can be less humid than much of western Europe in the winter, making it more bearable and an opportunity to get cosy. The city is...
