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New UK companies joined Israel arms trade during Gaza genocide, data shows
New figures show UK arms companies exported £30m of military equipment to Israel last year, with 18 firms joining the trade for the first time.
One in 20 young people in England now have no close friends, report finds
A major IPPR report finds a generation increasingly cut off from friends, from themselves and from wider society – with worsening mental health now hitting young people’s ability to learn, work and get things done.
Tyneside’s forgotten uprising: how workers took on the state in 1926
Playwright Ed Waugh takes to Newcastle City Library this month to tell the story the school curriculum leaves out – how Tyneside’s rank and file organised against the state during the General Strike.
Higher education destroyed Jason Arday to protect itself
As the memoir of Jason Arday is published this week, Clive Hedges argues that the row over his PhD was never really about plagiarism – it was about who higher education lets in and how quickly it turns on them.
Buses, bins and ballots: the disputes to watch this autumn
London bus workers on strike over the heat, refuse workers and gallery staff have walked out over pay and a fresh wave of Employment Rights Act changes takes effect within weeks.
Unions get a legal right to walk into workplaces from October
A new legal right will let unions request access to almost any workplace with 21 or more staff, whether or not they already have members there. Here’s what's changing and where the limits lie.
The spycops scandal was never about a few bad officers – it was state policy
New evidence to the undercover policing inquiry shows senior officers knew the Special Demonstration Squad’s infiltration of protest groups couldn’t be justified – yet the Home Office and Cabinet Office let it continue for decades.
From pit villages to retail parks: How the working class can win again
Andrew Hedges reviews a new book, published this week, that doubles as a portrait of his own County Durham and argues that the left must learn from Thatcher’s success at ‘subject formation’ if it wants to build one of its own.
When coverage stops being scrutiny and starts being a hunt
Jason Arday resigned amid plagiarism claims. Then the media kept coming. A week later, he was found dead – and the press has serious questions to answer.