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  • The food aisle of an Asda supermarket

    Britain’s broken food system

    As food insecurity continues to rise, the Right to Food campaign argues argues our food production practices are unfit for purpose

  • Bed in a hospital room with a chair and drawers by its side

    Birthing while black

    Anna Horn describes her own experiences in giving birth and how maternity services fail black women in particular

  • Former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn meeting with members of Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI)

    On the coming of age

    Old age and the ageing process cannot be divorced from the system as a whole, writes Jane Shallice

  • NHS workers at a socially distanced protest in Sheffield, holding signs asking for better pay

    Collective safety for all – resisting Long COVID

    As more and more people are forced to grapple with Long COVID, Alex Heffron argues nurses organising can play a crucial role in resisting the normalisation of mass sickness

  • A stock photo of a therapist with a patient

    Key words: Magical voluntarism

    In our continuing series on neoliberalism, Ieuan Pugh explains how its individualist ideology shapes ideas about mental health

  • Illustration by Laurence Ware depicting a scene of covid lockdown and social distancing

    Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left

    Reflecting on two years of Covid-19, James Meadway lays out the challenges the British left will have to adapt to and confront

  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

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