Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani joined each other on 17th December for a special end-of-year Downstream, wrapping up the year in politics.

PCS member Tate workers strike outside the Tate Britain, November 2025. PCS Union/X In November and December, over 150 workers for Tate went on strike. Outside three of Tate’s four galleries – Britain ...

This event will take place in EartH Theatre. A festive edition of If I Speak, the podcast where Ash Sarkar and Moya Lothian-McLean sort the personal from the political. Ash and Moya will be joined by ...

Boats moored on the Grand Union Canal, February 2023. Jane Boat/Flickr Imagine you’re behind on your council tax. Maybe you forgot, maybe you’re short on cash – or maybe you’re one of many people ...

It was predicted to be the final showdown: Zarah Sultana vs Jeremy Corbyn. But what emerged was a more nuanced drama: confusion, anger, but ultimately hope. Richard Hames and Jonah Braverman report ...

A leading human rights group has published the testimony of a Palestinian man who says guards used a dog to rape him in a notorious Israeli detention camp. The testimony, collected by the Palestinian ...

At Novara, we focus on the trends that are remaking the world and affecting our lives: technological development and automation, multipolarity, the demise of an American-led world order and the rise ...

Zack Polanski joins the Make Them Pay march in central London, September 2025. Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire via Reuters Connect When I joined the Scottish Green party in 2001, the Greens had around ...

It has been just over a year since Labour, led by Keir Starmer, took office with a huge majority. But a lot can happen in a year, and Starmer’s approval has tanked, making him the second most ...

Green party leader Zack Polanski gives a speech at a protest against the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea, October 2025. Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire via Reuters Connect When it comes to the ...

People bury the unidentified bodies of Palestinians who had been held in Israel during the war, after they were handed over by Israel in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, on 22 October 2025.

The general secretary of a major international trade union federation has been accused of multiple counts of workplace harassment and leading “a masculine, sexist, patriarchal boys club” where union ...