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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
In 2016, the UN said austerity had led to ‘systemic violations’ of disabled people’s rights. Now spiralling costs are pushing more disabled people into poverty – and with plans for new spending cuts, the Tories are doubling down.
Civil servants haven’t had a proper pay rise for 11 years, and more than a third are skipping meals to save money. The national strike ballot is a chance for 150,000 to make clear they’re not taking it anymore.
When our ruling class preaches virtue, it usually practices vice. The fascistic, eugenicist roots of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists are no exception.
On this day in 1945, delegates arrived at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall to begin the Fifth Pan-African Congress. Their aim: laying the foundations of a new Africa, free at last from colonial rule.
Unless Liz Truss commits to wage rises, fair taxes and properly funded public services, sacking Kwasi Kwarteng will make no difference – Britain will still be falling off the cliff edge.
Channel 4’s Peep Show is now almost two decades old. In Jeremy, it captured the archetype of the slacker – living a life that was dysfunctional, but in today’s terms, also unimaginably comfortable.
In the 1930s, Hungarian editor Stefan Lorant founded the ‘Picture Post’, which brought the radical ideas of post-revolutionary Central Europe to British newsagents – shown in its ‘inartistic’ stories of ordinary people.
Cutting bus services means punishing London’s most vulnerable for the pandemic. We need to fight to save the routes at risk – and to make the government fund the transport network properly.
As years of a growth-at-all-costs model start to bite, the platform economy is looking increasingly unsteady. Now’s the time to take back the tech from the venture capitalists.
In the 1980s, as politicians stoked racism and rugby league lamented the passing of its golden age, three black players came to the fore who would change their game – and their country – for good.
By pursuing tax cuts for the rich while the rest of the economy crumbles, Liz Truss has tanked the pound – and locked Britain into a spiral of national decline.
Bradford Council’s plans to raze the brutalist Kirkgate Centre represent this future City of Culture’s triumph over its optimistic, modernist past.
Junior doctors have spent the last decade face-to-face with the devastating effects of poverty and austerity on public health, while their own pay has dropped by up to 30% – and they know we can’t go on like this any longer.
Liz Truss’s government is rehashing the idea that funnelling money to the rich produces more wealth for everyone else. There’s just one problem: it doesn’t work.
A new spin on the classic ‘murder mystery in a big house’ genre takes aim at the class fractures in an allegedly politically progressive generation.
Unless the government acts now to ban evictions and freeze or cap rents, we’re facing a catastrophic wave of homelessness this winter.
This week Grace speaks to historian David Broder about Italian fascism in the wake of recent elections in which the far-right party led by Giorgia Meloni, the Brothers of Italy, came to power. They discuss the longer-term background of the rise of fascism, which David will be covering in his forthcoming book, Mussolini’s Grandchildren.
Since 2009, pay in further education has fallen in real terms by a shocking 35%. Now college staff have joined the strike wave – for decent pay, and for a system that values workers and the communities they serve.
Mike Gold was once one of America’s best-known writers, but his refusal to knuckle down in the McCarthy era saw him written out of history.
Research shows that only a drastic reduction in inequality can guarantee both a decent life for all and the future of the planet. In other words, to save the world, we have to tax the rich.