Latest UK

• James: Lobbying politicians is holding back the climate movement

  The lobbying and state-directed demands of climate NGOs are hurting the UK’s climate movement. We need to organize our struggle at a distance from the state
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  Cockburn: The Return of Northern Ireland as the Most Dangerous Open Wound in British Political Life

  Demanding rigorous implementation of the law against opponents while ignoring it oneself is part of the rich political tradition of Northern Ireland
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  Cook: The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day. We only notice when a royal dies

  To refuse to submit to compulsory grieving, to state that Philip’s death from old age is less important than the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the UK who lost their lives early from the pandemic, is not rudeness, or heartlessness, or a lack of patriotism
• Bechler: What is misogyny? An update

  'What is really remarkable about this horrible death is the outpouring of sympathetic grief across the nation in response.'
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  Pizzigati: A Manchester Boldly United for a More Equal Metropolis

  A major UK urban center takes on the most ambitious of goals: a fairer future for all
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  Cook: Starmer isn’t ‘too cautious’ – he is ruthlessly tearing Labour apart

  A year in, the British Labour leader is giving the Tories an easy ride while investing his energy in an all-out war on the party's left
• Rice: ‘Global Britain’, aggressive imperialism and draconian policing

  Belligerent abroad and oppressive at home, the government's rhetoric is being gradually cemented into law – to which protest is the only answer
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  Evans: Will Drones Really Protect Us?

  Drugs, Surveillance & The War on Terror
• Berry: As mayor, I’ll fight to fix London’s broken housing system

  Londoners need a mayor who will fight for housing reform and rent controls, argues Green Party candidate Sian Berry
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  Archer: UK women are being ‘used as guinea pigs’ by ‘abortion reversal’ doctors

  openDemocracy investigation reveals spread of controversial treatment that claims to ‘reverse’ abortions, supported by US Christian right
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  Cook: We are living through a time of fear – not just of the virus, but of each other

  Once fear takes hold, populations risk agreeing to hand back rights, won over decades or centuries, that were the sole, meagre limit on the power of elites to ransack the common wealth
• Blackburn: How Keir Starmer Alienated ‘Generation Left’

  The emerging generation is the most left-wing in decades, driven by a desire for fundamental social change – but while they flocked to Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer's war against the Left has turned them away
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  Cook: Like the Diana story, Meghan’s fight with the Royals will ensure nothing really changes

  The concern expressed by a senior royal during Markle’s pregnancy about Archie’s likely darker skin colour does indeed reveal how deeply ingrained racism is in the British establishment
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  Cook: Immunity passports: Does social solidarity only count when it gets us back to the pub?

  The ethics of immunity passports, or vaccine apartheid, depends on a wider debate about what our societies mean – and what they obscure – when they discuss issues of trust, the public good and social solidarity
• Kerr: U.K. Educators’ Safety Struggle Rekindles Collective Workplace Action

  The assault on workers’ rights and high-quality public education is an international phenomenon
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  Winstanley: Support for David Miller grows

  “A healthy society is one where people can speak the truth, even about uncomfortable subjects. No one should lose their job for telling the truth.”
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  Cockburn: The government may feel vindicated over the Shamima Begum verdict – but it shouldn’t

  If Begum is a national security risk she should face trial in the UK. Since 9/11, governments purporting to fight terrorism have provided propaganda for al-Qaeda and Isis
• Fowdy: Media Manipulation

  Twitter’s discrediting of leaked docs that show UK’s covert activities against Russia is a shocking case of media manipulation
• Sandor: Why planning is political

  Andrea Sandor explores how community-led developments are putting democracy at the heart of the planning process
• Paul: Guardian Columnist’s Firing Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper’s Rightward Drift

  The Guardian has fired one of its columnists for its US edition, Nathan Robinson, because Robinson jokingly tweeted about US military aid to Israel