This week, Grace talks to Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam, about why inequality increased so much during Covid, how it's affecting our democracies, and what we need to do about it.
By advocating a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine, the commentariat is demanding that we roll the dice on nuclear war – the latest reminder of just how dangerous our warmongering media truly is.
Western sanctions that drive ordinary Russians into poverty would be both wrong and ineffective – it’s time to hit Putin’s real base of power: Russia’s 500 richest oligarchs.
The latest IPCC report lays out the devastating impacts of climate change that lie just around the corner. They can't be stopped by half measures – the only way to avert disaster is to change the system.
Over one million workers in Britain are now on zero-hour contracts. Their proliferation has never been about 'flexibility' – it's about keeping workers insecure and wages low.
Glasgow's Radiophrenia music and sound festival evokes a public broadcast modernism – but also risks being trapped inside an experimental ghetto.
The German student revolt of the 1960s gave birth to a wave of left-wing publishers, whose politics gradually shifted from radicalism to accommodation with the end of history.
Western leaders are condemning Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, but they themselves are deeply complicit in bloodshed across the world. We need a movement that can oppose war everywhere.
Last week, free-marketeers in the Adam Smith Institute suggested that we privatise the moon. It's a sign of just far capitalism intends to go in pursuit of profits for the super-rich.
The first task for socialists in the appalling war being inflicted in Ukraine is to provide unconditional solidarity with its victims.
The government is ending self-isolation requirements and urging 'personal responsibility' instead – but as the pandemic proved, it's hard to be 'responsible' when sick pay is so low that staying off work means not making rent.
Britain’s political and media establishment were given convenient cover for their rampant Islamophobia by the 2014 ‘Trojan Horse’ hoax. The fevered response to a new podcast about the affair shows their unwillingness to admit that reality.