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Analysis

Unfinished Revolutions: How the UK and Gulf Monarchies Helped Crush Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement

by David Wearing

Ten years ago today, regime security forces in Bahrain attacked unarmed protesters camped at Pearl Roundabout, Manama. In the third piece of his series on the Arab uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the UK helped crush Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.

Long Read

Whatever Happened to the UK Youth Climate Strikes?

by Clare Hymer

Two years ago, young people across the UK walked out of school in the first of a wave of 'climate strikes'. But despite its rapid and extraordinary growth, the youth strike movement's future was in jeopardy even prior to the pandemic. Clare Hymer reports.

Person's arm being injected with a vaccine

Report

Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame

by Sophie K Rosa

Boris Johnson holds up a painting of a ladybird

Opinion

Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That

by James McAsh

Opinion

Why Should the BBC Licence Fee Fund Britain’s ‘Soft Power’?

by Aaron Bastani

International

Separatists Finally Have a Majority in Catalonia – But Independence Isn’t a Done Deal

Opinion

Don’t Trust the Rightwing Press – Their ‘Green Revolution’ is Just Eco-Nationalism

Analysis

Unfinished Revolutions: How the UK and Gulf Monarchies Helped Crush Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement

by David Wearing

Long Read

Whatever Happened to the UK Youth Climate Strikes?

by Clare Hymer

#NovaraFM

I Am Not My Work

Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.

#ACFM

#ACFM Trip 14: Desire

The #ACFM gang explore the political power of desire, from the storming of the Capitol to the Corbyn cult.

Analysis

Rojava is Trying to Build a Green Society, But Turkey is Starving It of Water and Power

by Matt Broomfield

Despite the immense gains made by Rojava's revolutionary project over the last eight years, it is lagging behind on ecological measures. To understand why, Matt Broomfield traces the delicate balance of geopolitical power in the region.