New Future

Have you ever been on the dole? What’s changed in the past thirty years in the ways unemployed, sick or disabled people go about claiming money from the state? Certainly, there’s been a material shift from analogue to digital; standing in dole queues with a flimsy newspaper-thin logbook, to online c

Recently, a friend commented how wonderful gender equality is in Britain. I thought of the 187 women and girls murdered here from March 2022 to March 2023. According to official records, that’s a low number. 214 femicides—murders of women and girls—were recorded the year prior. I thought of how 95%

Exploitative systems rely on our compliance: our willingness to work and pay our bills. This has become an almost naturalised obligation to pay for goods and services whilst working for an income to cover the cost of them. But we don’t have a stable and fair system. In recent years prices have risen

How did you get involved in selling DOPE magazine? I actually saw a seller selling it … but he doesn't do it anymore. He’s been a bit naughty, so he doesn't do it anymore. But I caught on with it, and I think I’m a natural.

O ur society is in a state of constant distress, from Coronavirus to the cost-of-living crisis. Amidst this, we're all forced to get by and earn a living. For millions of us, accessing work is a difficult process to navigate at the best of times, and decent pay and conditions seem a relic of the pas