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Not again with the Burqa Ban?
June 10th: As Reform UK splits over a stale debate, Muslim women’s voices remain conspicuously absent ~ James Horton ~ Many had thought very little about Sarah Pochin upon her tight win in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on May 1st.
Starmer’s Big Idea: A militarised, impoverished Britain
June 6th: The UK Strategic Defence Review will only deliver security for arms companies—not anyone using a food bank ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Sometimes you do have to love people in Britain—consider the almost universal reaction to the current prime minister announcing that we’re all now on a war footing: fuck off.
Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
June 1st: The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.
Kneecap and the realities of “Two-Tier Policing”
May 28th: The use of British state power against political expression is dangerously imbalanced ~ James Horton ~ Last week, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for the alleged display of a Hezbollah flag during a Kneecap concert in London last November.
Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail
May 26th: Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem
Abolishing the family: A survivor’s perspective
May 20th: The family is marketed as a safe space, a place of love and mutual care, but this is not supported by the data—How do we bring our experiences of mutual support networks to the centre of society?
Notes from the US: Fervent embrace of dogma
May 14th: We can now see clearly how Trump/MAGA/Musk’s implementation of Project 2025 can legitimately be called fascist ~ Louis Further ~ With the usual caveat that the very word ‘fascism’ should not be used loosely (you are invited to look at Notes From the US from November 2021 and almost two years later for discussions of
Beyond binaries: Gender, law and the reproduction of power
May 13th: As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refers exclusively to so-called “biological sex”.
Labour’s sweet little lies
May 12th: From destroying the environment to betraying the disabled, the government is running the same play—will people fall for it?
Our Power: Freedom on May Day
May 1st: Editorial from our summer issue, a rare all-colour one, out today with the theme of Our Power – looking at how anarchists and the working class can and have resisted the rightwards ratchet of capitalist politics ~ The issue includes an interview with Toby Shone on prisons and resistance, and retrospectives on Reclaim the Streets,
