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150 years ago this week, workers and the poor of Paris seized control of the city and established a popular, elected municipal government: they took over great buildings, wiped out debts, instituted free education – and inspired countless radicals worldwide. The Commune lasted only 72 days before being drowned in blood. But each of those […]

The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]

On Tuesday the Policing Bill – which will criminalise a wide range of protests – passed its second reading in the commons. Yet the bill still needs to jump many hurdles before it becomes law. Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss whether it can be stopped.   Banning Your Right to Protest

This weekend the Met Police sparked outrage with their heavy handed response to a vigil in remembrance of Sarah Everard. Meanwhile, parliament debates a new law that would give police forces even more power at cracking down on protests. We discuss what’s going wrong at the Met and the dangers of the Police, Crime, Sentencing […]

The disappearance and death of Sarah Everard has shone a spotlight on the epidemic of violence against women in Britain, and has provoked an outpouring from women on social media sharing their own experience of harassment, threats and violence at the hands of men. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss the case and the response […]

Piers Morgan is out from ITV and the Society of Editors is facing a growing backlash over its dismissal of media racism. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani. Meghan Takes Out Morgan

Will Harry and Meghan bring down the monarchy? Ash Sarkar is joined by gal-dem political editor Moya Lothian-Mclean and Novara Media’s very own James Butler to discuss how we ended up with a family of dysfunctional aristocrats at the very top of British society, why republicanism is still so marginal, and the collision course between […]

In an explosive Oprah interview, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle levelled allegations at the royal family which could fatally undermine their legitimacy. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

Throughout the pandemic the Tories have loudly thanked NHS workers for standing on the frontline against coronavirus. Now they’re offering them a miserly 1% pay rise. How did Boris Johnson go from clapping for carers to giving them a slap in the face? Slap for Carers

We all dream of a better world. In fact, all politics of emancipation – all serious politics of the left – is rooted in claims about a better world and a vision of the future. Why, then, do so many leftists disdain “making recipes for the cookshops of the future”? Did Marx really think we […]