New Future

Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.

A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.

Legal experts have lodged a landmark report with the Met police, alleging that British citizens have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting with the IDF in Gaza. Harriet Williamson reports.

A spate of legal challenges preventing politicians from standing in elections exposes the crisis of liberal democracy. The left should be cautious about celebrating when reactionaries get taken down by the courts, argues Richard Hames.

Thousands of Uber drivers are unable to work as they wait for new licenses. Some have used up their savings, gone into debt and are facing extreme stress. Polly Smythe reports.

Just Stop Oil has announced it’s hung up the hi-vis. Richard Hames looks back at three years of road-blocking and soup-throwing and ahead to what’s coming next.

An executive for Drax said the greenwashing power plant has a ‘revolving door’ with the civil service, as its massive lobbying budget is revealed.

The government is backsliding over reforms to Tory anti-strike laws. Perhaps it has something to do with the fresh round of cuts they have planned. Polly Smythe reports.

The Priory Group receives over £2bn a year from UK taxpayers - and for what? Harriet Williamson reports on force-feeding, untrained agency staff, criminal safety failures and the ‘mad’ youth activists who aren’t having it any more.

Workers at a branch in Bolton are aiming to become the first at a major pub chain to gain union recognition, but claim they are being met with classic anti-union tactics. Polly Smythe reports.

Director Laura Carreira speaks to Juliet Jacques about the quiet despair of gig economy workers and what a fictional feature can do that a documentary cannot.

Professor Avi Shlaim speaks to Sebastian Shehadi about his latest book, western complicity in the genocide in Gaza and how Israel’s own archives turned him into an anti-Zionist.

Ministers have looked at the UK economy in 2025 and concluded that disabled people simply have it too good. Can they be serious? Phil McDuff writes.

Recently released documents show that the former home secretary shared her ‘deep concern’ over Palestine protests with anti-terror officials - including one who used to work for the arms trade.