Today, detainees at the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre ended their month-long hunger strike. In a powerful essay, one of the detainees explains why they went on hunger strike, and why their #HungerForFreedom actions will continue.
The ideological flirtation of establishment figures, from Michael Gove to Boris Johnson, with the far right is a sign the latter is no longer a marginal force in British politics, argues Paul Stocker, author of ‘English Uprising’.
For decades, successive UK governments have fuelled, armed and enabled a terrible regime to continue its authoritarian rule over Saudi Arabia. It shouldn’t take the disappearance and death of a journalist for UK politicians to realise this must end, writes Andrew Smith.
A year ago this week, Salah Hamouri, a well-known French-Palestinian human rights activist was arrested in a pre-dawn raid by Israeli soldiers at his home in occupied East Jerusalem. He has been in indefinite detention ever since. Sawsan Bastawy speaks to his wife, Elsa Lefort, about her anger at the French government’s indifference and her steadfast optimism for the future.
In the latest essay of his series on Hakim Bey, Andrew Robinson examines Bey’s theory of capitalism, his critique of ‘cop culture’ and his comments on American global hegemony; and provides an analysis of Bey’s view of the dominant system.
The recent National Theatre production of Brian Friel’s ‘Translations’ is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
