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Gabriela Rodriguez was fired from her job over a minor misdemeanour. Now she and others like her are fighting back
When staff in Coventry downed tools, they kickstarted a David v Goliath battle against one of the most powerful companies on Earth. This is what happened next
As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions
Is the internet really to blame for the rise of conspiracy theories, or are they a symptom of a much wider political malaise?
On asylum, the UK’s political class has failed everyone - again and again. This audio deep dive into the making of the modern Home Office finds out why
As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent
When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by artist Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the civil unrest implicates us all
Global capital's favourite food delivery platform felt like a lifeline during the pandemic. But from dark kitchens to big data, its long-term path to profitability raises some troubling questions
From military barracks to private security guards: what kind of country awaits asylum seekers reaching the UK?
Craig Easton’s photographs of the Williams family in Blackpool in the early 90s exposed Thatcherism’s legacy of child poverty. Over two decades later, he tracked them down
How the coronavirus pandemic struck at the heart of Britain's government - and what it revealed about whose lives matter to those who govern us
A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London
Labour's defeat demands hard thinking about what went wrong and how to fix it. That work is urgent - because our future remains up for grabs
The inside story of the movement behind the man - and why, whoever wins the electoral battle, the Left is winning the war
News coverage of today’s political crisis begins and ends in Westminster. There’s a bigger picture that we’re missing
A major new book exploring Britain's political pandemonium from a radically different angle - published by The Bodley Head and Vintage Books
Digital technologies are a market product and play politics by different means. It’s up to us to harness them for democracy
A series of investigations into how our public spaces are increasingly privately-owned and policed by corporations
Twenty miles east of London, one forgotten port community is on the frontline of a global upheaval. Tilbury's contested history is a window onto our fast-changing political landscape - in Britain, and beyond
From the Isle of Dogs to Tower Bridge, just how much of the celebrated Thames riverside is actually open to the general public - and what does it tell us about money, politics and space in contemporary London?
Scotland’s independence referendum isn’t about nationalism. It’s about a system that failed, and a new generation looking to take a chance on itself