The Dark Heart of Green Toryism
When our ruling class preaches virtue, it usually practices vice. The fascistic, eugenicist roots of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists are no exception.
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Raven Hart
Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.
When Africa’s Future Came to Manchester
On this day in 1945, delegates arrived at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall to begin the Fifth Pan-African Congress. Their aim: laying the foundations of a new Africa, free at last from colonial rule.
Rearranging The Deckchairs
Unless Liz Truss commits to wage rises, fair taxes and properly funded public services, sacking Kwasi Kwarteng will make no difference – Britain will still be falling off the cliff edge.
Peep Show Is Now a Utopian Fantasy
Channel 4’s Peep Show is now almost two decades old. In Jeremy, it captured the archetype of the slacker – living a life that was dysfunctional, but in today’s terms, also unimaginably comfortable.
How the Picture Post Pioneered the Art of the Everyday
In the 1930s, Hungarian editor Stefan Lorant founded the ‘Picture Post’, which brought the radical ideas of post-revolutionary Central Europe to British newsagents – shown in its ‘inartistic’ stories of ordinary people.
London Can’t Afford to Lose Buses
Cutting bus services means punishing London’s most vulnerable for the pandemic. We need to fight to save the routes at risk – and to make the government fund the transport network properly.
Platforms for the People
As years of a growth-at-all-costs model start to bite, the platform economy is looking increasingly unsteady. Now’s the time to take back the tech from the venture capitalists.
The Children of the Windrush Generation who Revolutionised Rugby League
In the 1980s, as politicians stoked racism and rugby league lamented the passing of its golden age, three black players came to the fore who would change their game – and their country – for good.
Liz Truss Is Trapping Britain in Permanent Economic Decline
By pursuing tax cuts for the rich while the rest of the economy crumbles, Liz Truss has tanked the pound – and locked Britain into a spiral of national decline.
Demolishing Brutalist Bradford
Bradford Council’s plans to raze the brutalist Kirkgate Centre represent this future City of Culture’s triumph over its optimistic, modernist past.
Why Junior Doctors Are Saying Enough Is Enough
Junior doctors have spent the last decade face-to-face with the devastating effects of poverty and austerity on public health, while their own pay has dropped by up to 30% – and they know we can’t go on like this any longer.
The Trickle-Down Lie
Liz Truss’s government is rehashing the idea that funnelling money to the rich produces more wealth for everyone else. There’s just one problem: it doesn’t work.
Misidentification Murder Mystery
A new spin on the classic ‘murder mystery in a big house’ genre takes aim at the class fractures in an allegedly politically progressive generation.
A Tidal Wave of Homelessness Is Coming
Unless the government acts now to ban evictions and freeze or cap rents, we’re facing a catastrophic wave of homelessness this winter.
96. Mussolini’s Shadow w/ David Broder
This week Grace speaks to historian David Broder about Italian fascism in the wake of recent elections in which the far-right party led by Giorgia Meloni, the Brothers of Italy, came to power. They discuss the longer-term background of the rise of fascism, which David will be covering in his forthcoming book, Mussolini’s Grandchildren.
College Workers Are Fighting for Education’s Future
Since 2009, pay in further education has fallen in real terms by a shocking 35%. Now college staff have joined the strike wave – for decent pay, and for a system that values workers and the communities they serve.
Remembering ‘America’s Most Hated Critic’
Mike Gold was once one of America’s best-known writers, but his refusal to knuckle down in the McCarthy era saw him written out of history.
Planet Earth Can’t Afford the Rich
Research shows that only a drastic reduction in inequality can guarantee both a decent life for all and the future of the planet. In other words, to save the world, we have to tax the rich.
‘I Can’t Afford to Live’: How the Tories are Punishing the Poor
By threatening the biggest real-terms cut to benefits ever made in a single year, the Tories are making it clear they don’t care about ‘making work pay’ – they care about punishing the poor.
The NHS Can’t Take Austerity 2.0
The NHS is already on its knees, and the government want another round of public spending cuts, just as the cost of living crisis causes a fresh wave of health disasters. Let’s call that what it is: social murder.