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Policing / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025
Protesters taking part in a demonstration organised by Defend our Juries, in support of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, October 4, 2025
Policing / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025

Campaigners condemned government’s plan to give police new powers to crack down on protests

The Cable Street Mural, on Cable Street in East London
Britain / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025

Campaigners stand against hate on Cable Street anniversary

We Own It campaigners and supporters outside the Labour Party Conference at the Liverpool Arena, September 29, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Protesters march to defend Liverpool Women’s hospital
Labour Conference 2025 / 28 September 2025
28 September 2025
Protesters in Liverpool. Photo: Neil Terry Photography
Labour Conference 2025 / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025

Thousands of Palestine protesters march on eve of Labour conference 

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech to the Global Progress Action Summit, at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London, September 26, 2025
Authoritarianism / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Model houses on a pile of coins and bank notes, July 29, 2025
Cost-of Living Crisis / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Campaigners outside Leeds Magistrates Court, September 22, 2025
Climate / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Britain / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Zack Polanski after being announced as the new leader of the Green Party at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London, September 2, 2025
Britain / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
15 in court after police spent £3m on thwarting Drax protest. Photo: Reclaim the Power
Climate / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
A banner for Hillsborough Law, April 20, 2024
Britain / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
Protesters outside the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) UK, the flagship defence event for the UK, at ExCel London in Royal Victoria Dock, east London, September 9, 2025
Britain / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025

Activists vow to shut down one of the world’s largest arms fairs in London

Goods at a food bank
Britain / 10 September 2025
10 September 2025
A person holding an energy bill
Energy / 10 September 2025
10 September 2025
Britain / 3 September 2025
3 September 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper visiting the Bentley factory in Crewe, Cheshire, following the launch of the Government's Immigration White Paper, May 13, 2025
Britain / 1 September 2025
1 September 2025

Home Secretary accused of pandering to the far right as she outlines plans to overhaul asylum system

First Minister John Swinney and Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop (right) meet ScotRail Managing Director Joanne Maguire (left) and ScotRail apprentices during a visit to Edinburgh Waverley station, September 1, 2025
Scotland / 1 September 2025
1 September 2025
MP Diane Abbott addressing the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Britain / 29 August 2025
29 August 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Healthcare / 29 August 2025
29 August 2025
A dentist checking condition of a patient's teeth
Healthcare / 28 August 2025
28 August 2025
Supporters of Palestine Action take part in a mass action in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London, organised by Defend Our Juries as part of the Lift the Ban campaign, to end the proscription of Palestine Action, August 9, 2025
Right to Protest / 22 August 2025
22 August 2025

Defend Our Juries calls on supporters to skip street bail at next protest against Palestine Action ban

A general view of a person holding train tickets at Waterloo train station in London
Transport / 22 August 2025
22 August 2025

British cross-border train fares far outstrip flights, ranking among Europe’s worst

A F35 aircraft prepares to land at RAF Marham, Norfolk
Britain / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
An Extinction rebellion flag
Environment / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
Photo: Make Them Pay
Climate / 20 August 2025
20 August 2025
Letting and estate agents signs outside flats on the Old Kent Road in London
Housing / 19 August 2025
19 August 2025

Rip-off rents devour more than a third of tenants’ incomes in England

An elderly lady holding a cup of tea at home in Liverpool wi
Cost-of Living Crisis / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 5, 2025
Britain / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

Over 100 NGOs condemn new rules that have blocked millions in aid from reaching Gaza

Left picture shows Michelle at Christmas undergoing a chemical menopause at aged 23 when she had just lost her job
Interview / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT

A support worker stands in a corridor as the first patients
Workers' Rights / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025

Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’

Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a protest in support of the Palestinian People in Gaza, in Parliament Square, in London, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025
Activism / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025

Meanwhile, Defend Our Juries say the fact that only half of the protesters faced arrests ‘shows how unworkable and unenforceable this ban is’

Anti-fascists stage a counter protest to far-right thugs in Liverpool, August 9, 2025 Neil Terry
Britain / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Chief Executive of Crisis Matt Downie, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali during a visit to the homelessness charity Crisis, December 17, 2024
Housing / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution points are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report

A doctor checking a patient's blood pressure
Healthcare / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
People listening to speakers in Whitehall after a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025
Gaza / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
Junior doctors on the picket line at Cardiff's University Hospital, January 15, 2024
Healthcare / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Maysara Adwan, left, mourns as she holds the body of her 11-year-old son, Qais, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza that has been used as a shelter, during his burial at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, July 25, 2025
Arms Trade / 25 July 2025
25 July 2025

Sir Keir faces backlash for continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza

Pic: Neil Terry
Britain / 25 July 2025
25 July 2025

 Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill

Scientists occupy the lobby of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), part of the Bank of England, July 23, 2025
Climate Crisis / 23 July 2025
23 July 2025
Pro Palestine Action and counter-protesters during a protest in Parliament Square, central London, organised by Defend Our Juries who are campaigning to de-proscribe the organisation, July 19, 2025
Activism / 20 July 2025
20 July 2025

Police arrest over 100 at protests supporting Palestine Action

Smoke from an explosion rises in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, July 18, 2025
Wales / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025
People take part in an anti-Trump protest in Trafalgar Square, London, as part of demonstrations around the world, April 5, 2025
Trump / 14 July 2025
14 July 2025
Eggs in a carton
Environment / 17 June 2025
17 June 2025
Palestine Action activists at the London offices of Universal Defence & Security Solutions
Palestine Action / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025
House of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Government's spending review to MPs in the House of Commons, London, June 11, 2025
Britain / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025

Campaigners weigh in on Chancellor's spending review

A aerial view of Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria
Environment / 5 June 2025
5 June 2025
Local Government / 1 June 2025
1 June 2025
Police tents surrounded by debris at the scene in Water Street near the Liver Building in Liverpool city centre after a 53-year-old white British man was arrested when a car ploughed into a crowd of people during Liverpool FC's Premier League victory parade, May 27, 2025
Liverpool / 27 May 2025
27 May 2025
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander (right) speaks to SWR train drivers ahead of boarding the first operational renationalised train service at Waterloo train station in central London, May 25, 2025
Railway / 25 May 2025
25 May 2025

But unions warn renationalisation must not be fudged

A demonstrator outside the Royal Courts of Justice, May 13, 2025
Britain / 13 May 2025
13 May 2025

Campaigners say there is clear evidence British weapons are contributing to war crimes as the government goes on trial to defend its continued supply of arms to Israel

Office workers and commuters walking through Canary Wharf in London during the morning rush hour
Workers' Rights / 13 May 2025
13 May 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
Britain / 12 May 2025
12 May 2025

Unions and campaigners condemn Prime Minister's ‘far-right’ rhetoric and new immigration policies

A view of houses in north London, August, 2014
Social Care / 12 May 2025
12 May 2025
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Book Review / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

ELIZABETH SHORT recommends a bracing study of energy intensive AI and the race of such technology towards war profits

Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, January 18, 2023
Health Service / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025
© Henry Fowler, Strike Map
Workers' Rights / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

Hundreds travel to Birmingham to join ‘mega picket’ of striking refuse workers and supporters

Protesters from Just Stop Oil take part in what it claims will be their last direct action protest outside the Royal Courts Of Justice in central London, April 26, 2025
Climate Emergency / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025
Palestinians children inspect the damage caused by an Israeli air strike that targeted displacement tents in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025
Gaza / 7 May 2025
7 May 2025

Report reveals Britain exported over 160,000 military items to Tel Aviv since genocide began – most were sent after partial arms exports ban began last September

Police officers and protesters clash in Trafalgar Square during a March for Palestine in London, October 14, 2023
Protest Law / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

Court of Appeal rules key anti-protest legislation was forced through unlawfully

Protesters at RAF Lakenheath
Britain / 27 April 2025
27 April 2025

Seven arrested during RAF Lakenheath blockade

Poor living conditions in the UK result in serious harm, particularly to children. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA
Housing / 24 April 2025
24 April 2025

Run-down homes cited by Social Workers Union as danger factor for children

Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of bilateral talks with Pr
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

Letter to PM outlines best way to reduce hardship

The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France,
Britain / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

'Turning the migrant crisis into a marketplace'

People take part in an anti-Trump protest in Trafalgar Squar
Donald Trump / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

US president suggests he might visit the King in September

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
A sign for the Cabinet Office in Westminster, London
Britain / 11 April 2025
11 April 2025
(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Dr James Mar
Britain / 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Labour warned that workers expect better as anger mounts over welfare cuts and public-sector pay
Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Adre, on a visit to see how
Britain / 4 April 2025
4 April 2025
New stats show huge chunk of foreign aid is spent housing asylum-seekers within Britain
Unite members take part in a day of action for Energy4All in
Britain / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
Energy giants rake in half a trillion pounds out of people’s misery, campaigners warn
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is clapped by the
Britain / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Downing
Britain / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
Starmer under pressure over cruel plan to slash welfare budget
Activists from Climate Resistance protest during Conservativ
Britain / 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
A general view of a prison
Britain / 14 March 2025
14 March 2025

A lunch tray in the school canteen
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Campaigners urge government to roll out universal free school meals
Extinction Rebellion activists protest outside the Royal Cou
Britain / 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
Just six years cut from 41-year jail sentence for Just Stop Oil activists
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
Health and care visas plummet by 81 per cent, data shows
Demonstrators take part in the March of the Mummies national
Britain / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
Up to 74,000 women lose their jobs each year for getting pregnant or taking maternity leave, study suggests
An online energy bill
Britain / 20 February 2025
20 February 2025
Merseyside Fire & Rescue service help repair a broken window
Britain / 19 February 2025
19 February 2025
A tanker pumps out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane se
Britain / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
Customers will bear brunt of sky-high interest rates though increased bills, campaigners warn
Health Secretary Wes Streeting with Prime Minister Keir Star
Britain / 17 February 2025
17 February 2025
Britain / 16 February 2025
16 February 2025
Britain / 16 February 2025
16 February 2025
POLLUTION WARNING: An Axe Drax protest held in Leeds 
Pic:
Environment / 14 February 2025
14 February 2025
Britain / 13 February 2025
13 February 2025
Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, J
Britain / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
Damning report finds migrant workers propping up Britain’s crumbling care system are trapped in awful working conditions
Emissions from the Drax plant near Selby on a winter's day
Britain / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
CONCERNS: Director of INQUEST Deborah Coles
Chris Kaba death / 10 February 2025
10 February 2025
A woman holding her head in her hands
Britain / 6 February 2025
6 February 2025
Cornton Vale Prison in Stirling, Scotland, February 12, 2008
Britain / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
Prison report exposes soaring levels of self-harm in women's jails
High water levels on the River Wye in Hereford burst it's ba
Britain / 4 February 2025
4 February 2025