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Comment: The shameful food parcels handed out to needy parents show once again how a privatised pandemic response puts profit over people, writes Malia Bouattia.
Comment: Debunking anti-vax conspiracy theories means taking an honest look at the profiteering and incompetence of Boris Johnson's government, too, writes Malia Bouattia.
The teachers were right all along
Comment: The government's refusal to listen to the National Education Union's advice on how to protect schools and students is nothing but a criminal display of incompetence, writes Malia Bouattia.
The uses and abuses of how we define antisemitism
Comment: The IHRA's definition of antisemitism is being used to attack free speech, repress social justice work and criminalise Palestine ...
Tories are opposing cuts to aid for wrong reasons
Comment: Conservative opposition to Rishi Sunak's foreign aid cut has laid bare the distinctly unhumanitarian nature if its existence, writes ...
The Covid-19 vaccine and Britain's mishandling of the pandemic
Comment: Even as doubts linger over equal access and effectiveness, the UK government's touting of the Covid-19 vaccine must not whitewash the catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic, argues Malia Bouattia
Britain's equalities watchdog is missing something crucial: BAME representation
Comment: If the EHRC can't root out racial discrimination under its own roof, asks Taj Ali, what hope is there it will do an effective job at ...
Boris Johnson self-isolating after contact tested Covid-positive
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after someone he was in contact with tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, a spokesman ...
Pandemic redundancies speak volumes about real state of progress
Comment: Precarious and casualised, women of colour face lower pay, under employment, unfair treatment and discrimination at a time when we need ...
Plans to 'offshore migrant problem' stoop to new low
Comment: The UK appears to be taking lessons from Australia in mistreating migrants, with the idea of an offshore asylum processing centre on ...
The Coronavirus Act should have been reformed, not renewed
Comment: People in the UK need help, infrastructure, and funding, not more police and repression, writes Malia Bouattia.
Priti Patel considered sending migrants to South Atlantic: report
The idea has been slammed by the UK's official opposition party as 'inhumane'.
Nearly half of Conservatives believe Islam is a 'threat'
A new poll has found almost 50 percent of Conservative Party members in the UK consider Islam to be a 'fundamental threat to British life'.
There is nothing unconscious about Tory bias
Comment: No amount of 'unconscious bias' training will remedy a political class that defines itself through the exploitation and oppression of ...
France and UK play blame game over migrant deaths
Comment: A racist Tory government is doing everything it can to worsen conditions for asylum seekers and refugees. This death is on ...
Priti Patel's toxic xenophobia is the real enemy
Comment: The Home Secretary's spectacular lack of humanity towards migrants is obscuring the very real damage her government is doing to the country, writes Malia Bouattia.
Made in Europe: Saudi soldiers and weapons deals
Comment: The weapons deals and military training France and the UK provide to Saudi Arabia are killing civilians abroad, and harming workers at ...
British MPs 'outraged' over arms sales to Saudi Arabia
This week we focus on a 'disappointing' decision by the UK to resume Saudi arms sales, warnings over famine in Yemen and more.
Coronavirus emptied detention centres, they should remain closed forever
Comment: The Tories' hostile environment was suspended just long enough to prove another world is possible. Now though, it's back to business, ...
UK councillor suspended over Islamophobia promoted to 'wellbeing' chairman
A Tory Councillor in Nottinghamshire has returned to his role despite being suspended over Islamophobic comments made in response to ...
Fears grow for Egypt's political prisoners as Covid-19 surges
Fears grow for political prisoners in Egypt's jails as Covid-19 spreads amid deplorable conditions.
Covid-19 lays bare Britain's entrenched racial inequalities
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed stark racial inequalities in British society.
UK aide Dominic Cummings defies calls to quit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top aide Dominic Cummings defied calls to resign over allegations that he broke coronavirus rules and ...
UK equalities watchdog drops Tory Islamophobia probe
Britain's equalities watchdog has come under fire after dropping a long-awaited probe into Islamophobia in the country's ruling party.
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