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Ellie Whittaker

Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.

The England Team Are the Best of Us

The racist abuse directed at England’s football players since last night’s match is not an anomaly – it’s the consequence of politicians and media outlets demonising them for their efforts to make this country better.

Leave the Billionaires in Space

The space race playing out among billionaires like Branson, Bezos and Musk has little to do with science – it’s a PR-driven spectacle designed to distract us from the disasters capitalism is causing here on Earth.

Black Country Rock

Paul Mendez’s novel ‘Rainbow Milk’ celebrates the accents and voices of the Black Country, following its characters from Jamaica to Dudley to London.

Living to Tell

Paris Lees’ novel, inspired by her upbringing in the East Midlands, is a traumatic and funny story of class mobility, and of the places where the oppressions of class and gender collide.

The Myth of the No-Go Zone

In the last decade, right-wing politicians and media outlets have proliferated the idea of ‘no-go zones’ as a way to foment hatred against immigrants – only proving how much of their ideology consists of fantasy.

Together in Electric Dreams

A documentary film about the science fiction motif of ‘the world as a hallucination’ reveals something quite different — the tragedy of the means people use to cope with reality.

The Workers’ Wimbledon

Tennis has often been considered an exclusive sport – but in the 1930s, trade unionists came together to challenge the private clubs with their own tournament: the ‘Workers’ Wimbledon.’

The Ethnic Cleansing Theme Park

For decades, Israel has used culture and heritage as a weapon in its war against the Palestinians – but its latest move in Silwan is the most brazen yet: replacing living neighbourhoods with a biblical theme park.

The Film That Fell to Earth

The recently re-released ‘Friendship’s Death’ is an ambitious 1980s Channel 4 film in which left-wing director Peter Wollen brings radical science fiction together with the Palestinian freedom struggle.