Police shot and killed at least 18 people in Myanmar on Sunday in the deadliest crackdown on protests since the military staged a coup d'etat on 1 February. Novara Media asked a doctor and activist what the last month's been like.
Report
Royal Mail Wants to Close Its Workers’ Nursery During the Pandemic
by Shahed Ezaydi
Childsplay has been a lifeline for Royal Mail parents since 1989, though particularly during the past year. Now the company plans to rip it away, just when workers need it most. Shahed Ezaydi reports.
Analysis
The Tories’ Anti-Protest Clampdown Will Hit Black and Brown People Hardest
by Zehrah Hasan, James Aiken and Callum Lynch
Opinion
Until He Starts Talking About Rent Caps, Keir Starmer Isn’t Serious About Championing Business
by Aaron Bastani
Analysis
Alexei Navalny Is a Complicated Figure – But a Gift to the Russian Left
by Volodya Vagner
Opinion
A Spanish Company is Building an Apartheid Railway in Israel – Now It Wants in on HS2
Analysis
Is the Hague Finally About to Challenge Israeli Impunity?
Report
A Doctor on Living Through a Month of Deadly Protests in Myanmar
by A doctor in Myanmar
Police shot and killed at least 18 people in Myanmar on Sunday in the deadliest crackdown on protests since the military staged a coup d'etat on 1 February. Novara Media asked a doctor and activist what the last month's been like.
Report
Royal Mail Wants to Close Its Workers’ Nursery During the Pandemic
by Shahed Ezaydi
Childsplay has been a lifeline for Royal Mail parents since 1989, though particularly during the past year. Now the company plans to rip it away, just when workers need it most. Shahed Ezaydi reports.
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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.
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#ACFM Trip 14: Desire
The #ACFM gang explore the political power of desire, from the storming of the Capitol to the Corbyn cult.
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.
TyskySour
Johnson’s Travel Rules Under Strain
Does the arrival of the Brazil variant in Britain show Johnson’s travel rules aren’t fit for purpose?
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#NovaraFM
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.
#ACFM
#ACFM Trip 14: Desire
The #ACFM gang explore the political power of desire, from the storming of the Capitol to the Corbyn cult.
#ACFM
#ACFM Microdose: Tabitha Bast on Dating and Desire
Do dating apps leave us unprepared for offline love? Nadia Idle talks to psychosexual therapist Tabitha Bast about the politics of desire.
#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.
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Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
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#ACFM Trip 13: Crowds
With the pandemic keeping us in isolation, the crew return to discuss crowds. Are they forums for collective joy, or platforms for demagoguery?
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Ten Years of #NovaraFM
This year makes it a decade that Novara has been on the air in some form. Join James Butler for a head-spinning trip into the FM archives.
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#ACFM Microdose: Ece Temelkuran on Crowds
Nadia Idle speaks to Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran about the potency of crowds.
Opinion
The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
by Joe Duffy
Opinion
To the Free Speech Warriors of the Right, Only Some Speech Matters
by Barnaby Raine
Report
Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame
by Sophie K Rosa
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
Analysis
Unfinished Revolutions: How the UK and Gulf Monarchies Helped Crush Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement
by David Wearing
International
Separatists Finally Have a Majority in Catalonia – But Independence Isn’t a Done Deal
by Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin
Opinion
Don’t Trust the Rightwing Press – Their ‘Green Revolution’ is Just Eco-Nationalism
by Sam Knights
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