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6 Ways the Conservatives Are Failing Even on Their Own Terms
by Steve Rushton
How Conservative Austerity Cost the UK Billions
by Raoul Martinez
Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Banks in This Election?
by Paul Williams
What the Casey Review Got Wrong (and Right) About Migrant Women’s Social Exclusion
by Charlotte Watson
What Do University Cleaners and Lecturers Have in Common? A Short History
by Laura Schwartz
5 Reasons Sisters Uncut Have Reclaimed Holloway Women’s Prison
by Sisters Uncut
Power to the People? Devolution, Metro Mayors and the North East
by Nick Dowson
Security and a Labour Surge
In the first of a two-parter, Aaron and Michael are joined by Stephen Bush to discuss the restart of election campaigning after the Manchester attack.
Living a Feminist Life: An Interview With Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed joins Ray Filar to talk about her new book, being a feminist killjoy, the use of theory, working inside and outside the academy, lesbian feminism of colour, snapping, Leona Lewis and her survival kit.
The Meaning of Manifestos
On #NovaraFM James Butler and Aaron Bastani review the party's election manifestos. What do manifestos tell us more generally about the limits of modern politics?
The Manifesto, It’s Beautiful
On TyskySour, Michael and Aaron chat insurgent campaigns, polls, and Labour's blueprint for socialism.
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How Conservative Austerity Cost the UK Billions
Since 2010, the Conservatives have repeatedly claimed that only they can be trusted to run the economy. Where a prodigal Labour party would run the economy into the ground with excess spending, they say they're prepared to take the 'common-sense' approach of austerity. Raoul Martinez argues that this story doesn't ring true; austerity is a recipe for economic misery.
The Uses of Innocence: Terror, Surveillance and the Manchester Attack
The Manchester attack has widely been framed as an attack on innocence. But rather than protecting children, the government’s response to the bombing smacks of a cynical attempt to weaponise the victims' innocence for the purposes of racist nation-building.
What Is Effeminacy and How Can We Celebrate It?
Mainstream society's conception of what it means to be a man leaves no room for the celebration and cherishing of a more feminine kind of manhood.