Health

  • A monthage of newspaper headlines about material health scandals with a Black protester holding a placard

    Rethinking anti-racism

    Racism is a powerful technique for sustaining injustice. We must respond to what it does, argues Gargi Bhattacharyya, if we are to dismantle it

  • Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Ed Milliband and Welsh Minister Jo Stevens sitting in the centre of a semicircle, with volunteers from Cardiff & Vale Citizens Advice Bureau on either side of them

    Citizens’ Advice and the hidden cost of welfare reform

    Within an overstretched system, Citizens Advice workers are forced to ration empathy, writes Gareth Oliver

  • A blurry photograph of the interior of a nightclub

    On the radical politics of sobriety

    Addiction in the UK remains stigmatised as an individual failing. Recognising its structural underpinnings is key to liberatory framings of sobriety, writes William Rayfet Hunter

  • A 19th century illustration of a quack, edited to show him holding a smartphone, whilst the logos of Instagram and ChatGPT are placed above him

    Algorithms vs the welfare state

    Concerns about misleading AI and influencer ‘content’ on health, welfare and civil rights miss a wider issue, argues Sophia McHardy. They fill a human-made gap that risks becoming an austerity-shaped chasm

  • A blue Transform Drug Policy Foundation billboard under a train bridge reading 'Getting Drugs Under Control.'

    How the left can support drug law reform

    It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton

  • A woman wearing a mask in a wheelchair speaking into a microphone, while other protestors holding signs and placards stand behind her

    Towards a progressive future for welfare

    David Matthews examines how the welfare state is used against the working class – and how we can imagine a more liberatory welfare system

  • UK Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall delivering her 'Get Britain Working' Ministerial Statement in the House of Commons

    The war on neurodiversity

    From dismissive comments to benefits cuts, backlash against the neurodiversity movement is growing. Gerry Hart explains how the left can fight back