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NOVEMBER 18. 2024

Vet Company Responds to Strikes by Simply Closing Branches

Valley Vets is the first veterinary group in the UK to face strike action by its workers. Now it’s shutting most of its surgeries. Polly Smythe reports.

NOVEMBER 15. 2024

The Last World War Veterans Are Dying. Cue New Heights of Remembrance Hysteria

Soldiers tend to be much more down on war than those who send them into it, writes Juliet Jacques, as even the briefest look at their poetry will testify. As those who witnessed the misery of war pass away, hawkish politicians are seizing control of the narrative.

NOVEMBER 14. 2024

People Won’t Care About Democracy If Democracy Doesn’t Care About Them

Whether Trump or Orban, Modi or Milei, states whose primary beneficiaries aren’t their own citizens but a transnational investor class inevitably opt out of liberal democracy, writes Kojo Koram. Why are Democrats so surprised by this?

NOVEMBER 13. 2024

Elon Musk Secures Trump Cabinet Position

Elon Musk is poised to take a wrecking ball to US government spending as 'government efficiency' tsar. Plus: Wes Streeting announces new NHS reforms; and we speak to Dr Feroze Sidwha about his time in Gaza. With Steven Methven and Dalia Gebrial.…

NOVEMBER 12. 2024

Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Several clinicians pivotal to the Cass Review recently addressed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a designated anti-trans hate group that shares funding sources with the organisation behind Project 2025. Rivkah Brown reports.

NOVEMBER 8. 2024

Democrats Have Only Themselves to Blame

Kamala Harris supporters are already blaming a stupid electorate and an inclement economy for their historic defeat, writes Luke Savage. Maybe it had something to do with cosying up to war criminals and billionaires?

NOVEMBER 7. 2024

Germany Ties Cultural Funding to Israel Allegiance

On Thursday a cross-party group of German MPs voted to withhold culture and science funding from those who boycott Israel or breach a pro-Israel definition of antisemitism. Rivkah Brown reports.

NOVEMBER 6. 2024

Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

With the recent budget Labour whispered its first words of defiance to the bullying landlord lobby. A little louder for the people at the back, writes Nick Bano.

NOVEMBER 5. 2024

This Election Has Been America’s Most Antisemitic Yet

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have jointly assumed Jews’ dual loyalty to the US and Israel. Their assumption justifies genocide, endangers Jews and erodes democracy, writes Mia Brett.

Left Populism Has Become Mexico’s New Normal. At What Cost?

The Morena party has governed Mexico for six years. As it assumes a new leadership, Novara Media spoke to organisers and thinkers about how left populism swept the country – and those who say the costs of victory have been too high.

NOVEMBER 4. 2024

Starmer Hits Students With Tuition Fees Hike

The government has announced hikes to tuition fees; Keir Starmer has dialled up his anti-immigration rhetoric. Plus: we speak to Max Geller from Palestine Action to discuss the group's recent actions. With Steven Methven and Aaron Bastani.…

Western Politicians Hate Francesca Albanese for Good Reason – She’s Making Them Look Terrible

While the UK and US tiptoe around Israel’s war crimes, the United Nations rapporteur is actually holding Israel to account, writes Tayab Ali – hence the barrage of baseless criticism she’s facing.

A Palestinian Academic Thought Her Ordeal With Her Employer Was Over. Then It ‘Reached Out to the Jewish Chronicle’

Dr Shahd Abusalama has claimed victory after settling out of court with Sheffield Hallam University, following an extraordinary legal battle. Simon Childs reports.

NOVEMBER 1. 2024

Delivery Company Offers Workers Rights – But Only With a Pay Cut

After a strike-ballot opened, workers were taken into one-on-one meetings and asked to sign new contracts that they hadn’t even seen. Polly Smythe reports.