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Why May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Why May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Simon Chandler analyses the Tory manifesto and May’s speeches, and explains why their efforts to tackle inequality are a facade
UK General Election: The New Internationalist perspective

UK General Election: The New Internationalist perspective

Click to find views, blogs and takes on the UK election that you won't find elsewhere
Finding home: the homelessness crisis across the West

Finding home: the homelessness crisis across the West

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.
‘Fora Temer’: is it the end for Brazil’s neoliberal president?

‘Fora Temer’: is it the end for Brazil’s neoliberal president?

Do not despair if you don’t have a grip on Brazil’s political crisis. Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas argues nothing could have worked after the ousting of Dilma Rousseff.
Why disabled people oppose the Tories

Why disabled people oppose the Tories

Seven long years of Tory austerity and their relentless attacks on disabled people is enough, writes Linda Burnip.
UK General Election: What are the foreign policy implications?

UK General Election: What are the foreign policy implications?

Voters are caught between choice and media disinformation, writes Mark Curtis.

Top stories

Domestic violence: how victims are left on their own in Pakistan

The lack of laws is leading to a scary rise in domestic violence in some of Pakistan’s provinces, writes Mahwish Qayyum

UK General Election: Why Theresa May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Simon Chandler analyses the Tory manifesto and May’s speeches, and explains why their efforts to tackle inequality are a facade

Finding home: Lack of affordable housing is a crisis across the West

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.

And Finally: Jason Williamson

Sleaford Mods’ vocalist Jason Williamson talks to Graeme Green about anger, politics and anti-singing.

Southern Exposure

Iqbal Hossein photographs Rohingya refugees, and hears their harrowing experiences.

Making Waves: how Catherine Shovlin is bringing a sense of community to a refugee camp

A radio soap opera is bridging social gaps in Azraq refugee camp. Florence Derrick meets its champion.

Mixed media: music reviews

Mogoya by Oumou Sangaré; The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda: our music reviews of the month.

Blogs

UK General Election: Security means nothing without freedom

Prime Minister Theresa May doesn’t just put UK citizens at risk, but actively undermines the tools that maintain and expand our rights as citizens, writes Tom King.

Power Shift: from a politics of persecution to solidarity

A new generation of social movement builders shows that democracy will continue beyond Britain’s 8 June General Election, write Chris Jarvis and Harpreet Kaur Paul.

‘Fora Temer’: is it the end for Brazil’s president and neoliberalism champ?

Do not despair if you don’t have a grip on Brazil’s huge scandal. Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas argues nothing could have worked after the ousting of Dilma Rousseff.

UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories

Seven long years of Tory austerity cuts and their relentless attacks on disabled people is enough, writes Linda Burnip.

The Manchester bombing and the battle for peace

It’s hard to speak the truth when grief and anger are at their peak, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Turning dictatorships into democracies: Lessons from Gandhi

Nurturing the authority of an approved centralized, omnipresent government can exacerbate instability through mistrust and unfitting policy, argues Tej Parikh.

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