Year: 2019

Former Labour MP Clare Short got right to the heart ...

A photo of members of the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland giving evidence in front of an Irish government committee

Asylum seekers tell Irish committee chilling stories and ask government to ‘treat them as human beings’

by Bryan Wall

Asylum seekers in Ireland have spoken out about their treatment ...

UN expert says Julian Assange has been ‘tortured’ and urges UK not to extradite him to US

UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer said on 31 ...

Image of Rory Stewart wearing sunglasses and smoking opium

Rory Stewart blames his voting record on his opium habit

by John Shafthauer

PM hopeful Rory Stewart has some appeal. Or at least ...

A person carries a fox cub in a noose as a second person looks on

Two plead guilty during a trial about live fox cubs being fed to hunting hounds

by Glen Black

22 May 2020

Two people linked to a hunt have pleaded guilty to ...

Julian Assange standing on balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London

WikiLeaks expresses ‘grave concerns’ as Julian Assange’s health deteriorates further

Julian Assange was unable to appear in court via videolink ...

Donald Trump and Sun setting behind an oil rig

In a deeply deceitful move, Donald Trump’s administration rebrands fossil fuels ‘Molecules of Freedom’

by Fréa Lockley

In a truly terrifying move, the US Department of Energy ...

RIP Walter Wolfgang. The Labour veteran who called Tony Blair ‘the worst leader the Labour Party has ever had’

by Joshua Funnell

Walter Wolfgang, the Labour veteran and peace activist, has died. The ...

The Met Police’s gang database is ‘ineffective’, ‘humiliating’ and racist

Five ridiculous reasons why the police label campaigners as ‘domestic extremists’

by Kevin Blowe

5 July 2019

As the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) launches its campaign ...

Holding politicians accountable if they lie ‘bad’, claim lying politicians

by John Shafthauer

Boris Johnson is due in court over claims that he ...

A photo of a homeless man in Dublin sleeping on a public bench.

Homelessness in Ireland hits new high as figures show increase in England and across Europe

by Bryan Wall

The number of homeless people in Ireland has risen again ...

Chinese state oil company and Exxon to start drilling as Irish government betrays its climate promises

by Bryan Wall

The Irish government has given the go-ahead for oil drilling ...

Ocasio-Cortez pinpoints the dangers of corporate propaganda amid a ‘flood of death threats’

by Fréa Lockley

US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has highlighted just how dangerous political ...

Group discussion at Byline festival direct democracy

With UK increasingly divided, a new report calls for sweeping change to fix the country’s ‘crumbling’ political system

Ten years after the expenses scandal which shattered confidence in ...

Corbyn slams Tories for ‘turning a blind eye’ as UK exposed as ‘world’s greatest enabler of corporate tax avoidance’

New research published by the Tax Justice Network shows that ...

The only certainty of Brexit is rising racism in the UK

by Fréa Lockley

This article is one of three Opinion pieces looking at ...

Here’s how much the democrat-when-it-suits-us Remainers have now fu*ked up Britain

by Tracy Keeling