Europe is ramping up for war. Entire economies – including the UK’s – are being restructured in favour of defence and to preserve the US’s commitment to the ...

The other day someone forwarded me an image of a tiny UK based neo-Nazi group White Vanguard posing for the camera. Twelve people dressed in all black, stood behind a banner with Nazi iconography ...

Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani joined each other on 17th December for a special end-of-year Downstream, wrapping up the year in politics.

Sandie Peggie, who failed to persuade a judge that NHS Fife had unlawfully forced her to share a changing room with a trans colleague, at a press conference in Dundee, December 2025. Jane Barlow/Alamy ...

This event will take place in EartH Theatre. A festive edition of If I Speak, the podcast where Ash Sarkar and Moya Lothian-McLean sort the personal from the political. Ash and Moya will be joined by ...

This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar is joined by one of the most controversial political figures on the Left: Roger Hallam. Whether you like or loathe his tactics, it’s hard to deny the disruptive ...

We spoke to Jeremy Corbyn about Your Party’s strategy, the controversial expulsions of some members and the difficulties of democracy.

A leading human rights group has published the testimony of a Palestinian man who says guards used a dog to rape him in a notorious Israeli detention camp. The testimony, collected by the Palestinian ...

Zack Polanski joins the Make Them Pay march in central London, September 2025. Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire via Reuters Connect When I joined the Scottish Green party in 2001, the Greens had around ...

The general secretary of a major international trade union federation has been accused of multiple counts of workplace harassment and leading “a masculine, sexist, patriarchal boys club” where union ...

Keir Starmer has announced plans to introduce mandatory digital ID cards as a measure against illegal immigration. Plus: The US backs Tony Blair to run the transitional authority in Gaza, and ...

Our politicians don’t agree on much, but one thing most of them agree on is that growth is universally good. Grow the pie, they assure us, and there will be more to go around. Our guest on Downstream ...