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Ellie Whittaker

Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.

Nature for Everyone

Labour’s new Shadow Minister for Nature, Water, and Flooding brief is an opportunity to push radical policies – from the Green New Deal to land reform to rewilding – that both protect the natural world and make it accessible for all.

Subsidising the Oil Spill Economy

While claiming to care about climate change, the British government has spent decades intervening to protect oil giant BP’s private profits – as well as giving it hundreds of millions in public subsidies.

The Real Ethel Rosenberg

A new book on Ethel Rosenberg, a Communist put to death at the height of the Cold War, exposes McCarthyism – and tells the real story of the only American woman executed without being convicted of murder.

Football: The Political Game

From the fight against racism to the one against child poverty, football has never been ‘apolitical’ – and taking the knee is just the latest sign that the game plays a role in deciding what kind of society we live in.

Justice for Orgreave

On this day in 1984, a paramilitary police operation attacked striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant. It was a crime against the working class – and 37 years later, those injured have yet to see justice.

Erdoğan’s Latest War on Kurdistan

In recent weeks, the Turkish state has launched an assault on Kurdish villages and refugee camps along the Iraqi border – stepping up its efforts to wipe out democracy and self-determination in Kurdistan.

Photographing Thatcher’s Britain

In the 1980s, documentary photographer Paul Graham used his camera to capture the bleakness of Social Security and Unemployment Offices, painting a stark image of life under neoliberalism.

The Property Cult

The right-wing proclaims itself a champion of freedom, but an interrogation of its history reveals an altogether different priority – the centuries-long defence of property and the propertied.

Why Local News Is Worth Saving

Britain’s local newspapers could be a major player in democracy, telling community stories that are shut out of the mainstream – but with 245 titles lost in the last 15 years, their power is growing weaker by the day.

Art School Confidential

New research on Vkhutemas, the Moscow school of design dubbed the ‘Soviet Bauhaus’, reveals the sheer scale of revolutionary ambitions – but also a mismatch between mundane tasks and extravagant dreams.

The New Green-Red Zagreb

In May’s local elections, Croatia’s green-left platform won the capital’s assembly and its mayoralty. The new government has big plans for a clean, democratic city – but the challenges of building it under assault from the right remain.