New Future

Over 720 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption. Union leaders, MPs and cultural figures have joined them. Rivkah Brown reports.

His outsider status and unabashed spiritualism made TV star Russell Brand feel like a kindred spirit to a young Alison J Carr. As his alleged sexual misconduct and alt-right tendencies come to light, she wonders: how did I get him so wrong?

The government's big pitch to workers and trade unions could end up full of loopholes, missed opportunities and bad incentives for bosses. Polly Smythe reports.

Exclusive: BBC News global director Jonathan Munro refuted colleagues’ claims that the corporation was suppressing the International Court of Justice’s ruling that Israel was plausibly committing genocide while minimising the ruling’s significance, internal emails reveal. Rivkah Brown reports.

The Science Museum is facing fresh scrutiny over its sponsorship by Adani Green Energy, part of coal giant Adani Group, after fraud charges were brought against the company’s directors. Ignore the denials, writes Adam Ramsay - this is pure, unadulterated greenwashing.

Patrick Hart has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for cracking fuel pump displays at an Esso service station as part of an action with Just Stop Oil.

Israeli soldiers filming themselves killing civilians surpasses legal definition, writes international law professor Rob Howse.

From graceless losers to pathetic fence-sitters, here are the public servants who have made Britain what it is in 2024.

People are tired of identity politics - and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Donald Trump proves it, writes Richard Seymour.

While Suella Braverman and Priti Patel are remembered as the spearheads of the protest crackdown, writes Francesca Newton, it was Tony Blair who kicked it into a whole new gear.

There’s little worse than wasting your time on a bad book, and little more rewarding than getting it right. Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar share their top reads of the year.

Ellen Clifford is fighting Keir Starmer's government in the high court to prevent disability benefit cuts. She speaks to Harriet Williamson about the value of disabled life under capitalism, assisted dying and why disabled people threaten the status quo.

Last month, police raided a community centre that David Lammy used to sit on the board of, as part of a controversial counter-terror investigation. Since then, the foreign secretary said nothing about it. What is going on?

Retail and hospitality workers are told to be even more cheerful during the festive season - which is also their least favourite time of year.