When staff in Coventry downed tools, they kickstarted a David v Goliath battle against one of the most powerful companies on Earth. This is what happened next

As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions

Is the internet really to blame for the rise of conspiracy theories, or are they a symptom of a much wider political malaise?

What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?

As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent

When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by artist Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the civil unrest implicates us all

Global capital's favourite food delivery platform felt like a lifeline during the pandemic. But from dark kitchens to big data, its long-term path to profitability raises some troubling questions

Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined

From military barracks to private security guards: what kind of country awaits asylum seekers reaching the UK?

Craig Easton’s photographs of the Williams family in Blackpool in the early 90s exposed Thatcherism’s legacy of child poverty. Over two decades later, he tracked them down

How the coronavirus pandemic struck at the heart of Britain's government - and what it revealed about whose lives matter to those who govern us

A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London

Labour's defeat demands hard thinking about what went wrong and how to fix it. That work is urgent - because our future remains up for grabs

The inside story of the movement behind the man - and why, whoever wins the electoral battle, the Left is winning the war

News coverage of today’s political crisis begins and ends in Westminster. There’s a bigger picture that we’re missing

Liberals are peddling an ahistorical nostalgia. The people aren’t buying it.

For the London Review of Books - Dystopian realities in Sisi's Egypt

Digital technologies are a market product and play politics by different means. It’s up to us to harness them for democracy