‘We need to assert our power - or we’ll get trampled on’: the cleaner sacked for eating a tuna sandwich
Gabriela Rodriguez was fired from her job over a minor misdemeanour. Now she and others like her are fighting back
Pyramid Schemes and Revolutions - ‘Cursed Objects’ featuring Jack Shenker
The ‘Cursed Objects’ podcast meets journalist Jack Shenker, and his broken revolutionary mug
‘To them, we are like robots’: the inside story of a strike at Amazon
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
The existential question for climate activists: have disruption tactics stopped working?
As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions
How a Manchester United superfan became a conspiracy theorist
Is the internet really to blame for the rise of conspiracy theories, or are they a symptom of a much wider political malaise?
Inside the campaign at COP27 to free Egypt’s most famous political prisoner
What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?
Hostile Environment: Inside Britain’s Home Office
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
Meet the “Inactivists”, Tangling Up the Climate Crisis in Culture Wars
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
Ten Years On: “Young People Were Watching Their Futures Disappear Before Their Eyes”
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
Deliveroo Wants to Change the Way We Eat. What Does that Really Mean?
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
Egypt’s Dystopia is a Lesson for the World
Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined
Fortress Britain
From military barracks to private security guards: what kind of country awaits asylum seekers reaching the UK?
This photo caused shock waves in 1992, where are its subjects now?
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
Death at the Ministry
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
Conversations with Stuart Hall: Unravelling and Resistance
A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London
Election 2019: Reflecting on Possibility
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
Why Corbynism Matters
The inside story of the movement behind the man - and why, whoever wins the electoral battle, the Left is winning the war
The drama in parliament is irresistible for the media. But real politics is happening elsewhere
News coverage of today’s political crisis begins and ends in Westminster. There’s a bigger picture that we’re missing