Tag results for: politics
My sister died after spending time in a dangerous online forum. Now I’m campaigning for it to be banned
This article references suicide.Adele Zeynep Walton, a journalist and campaigner, had no reason to mistrust the digital world until her sister Aimee died, after being drawn into a...
Inside the historic Together for Palestine concert
It was exactly 11 years ago that I first joined a protest in support of Palestine. In 2014, tens of thousands of ordinary people took to the streets...
The far-right has shown up. Here’s how we fight back
Last Saturday, Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, led a rally of up to 150,000 protesters, mostly draped in Union Jack or England flags, through central...
Only the privileged get to ‘put politics aside’. For some, simply existing is political
There’s an iconic moment in British TV history, when Chris and Stephen from Gogglebox are watching the espionage thriller Homeland. Chris casually remarks, 'We all like a bad...
Feminism is being co-opted by the far-right again, this time to target migrants
This strategy echoes another hallmark of the far right: co-opting patriotism. Across the UK, Union Jacks and St George’s flags are being painted on shopfronts, mini-roundabouts, and zebra...
Why do the police keep arresting peaceful protestors?
“I obviously could stay in,” she says. “I grow cut flowers, and I have a rescue dog. I could just stay and do those things. But it just...
