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Ebola Bundibugyo virus emergency response: "Medicines are not shoes or cars."

May 29, 2026 by Eric Stobbaerts

Ebola Bundibugyo virus emergency response: "Medicines are not shoes or cars."
Bunia Airport, DRC, 2026. Emergency supplies from cargo flight, including 3,000 items of protective equipment for healthcare workers, being loaded onto MFS truck. Photo: © Ana Schönhofer/MSF, courtesy of MSF

The recent outbreak of Ebola in the DRC and Uganda reflects a global hierarchy of whose lives are protected, whose diseases matter, and which crises are considered economically worth solving. It should not be normal that communities facing deadly outbreaks still depend primarily on improvisation, emergency goodwill, and delayed international attention. Neglected diseases is a euphemism for neglected populations.

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Arsenal is an African club

May 24, 2026 by Sean Henry Jacobs

Arsenal is an African club
Two boys — both ardent Arsenal fans — in the Ethiopian town of Sendafa, September 2007. Photo: Antony Robbins via Flickr

Today, Arsenal is viewed as a open, welcoming, diverse, and above all as representing democracy, antiracism, and forward-looking values. Yet the club spent years (from 2018 until 2025) advertising one of Africa’s most efficient dictatorships through its “Visit Rwanda” sponsorship. Although Arsenal’s sleeve sponsorship agreement with Rwanda has now come to an end, the controversy surrounding the partnership has left unresolved questions

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Delete Genocide Tech – Public Meeting Tour

May 23, 2026 by Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Liverpool, Cardiff and London: 15/06/2026 - 17/06/2026 12:00

Delete Genocide Tech – Public Meeting Tour
Image: Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Israel uses AI and surveillance technology in its genocide and apartheid against Palestinians, and the companies developing the tech have contracts here in Britain. Our new Delete Genocide Tech campaign, launching in June, will force complicit tech companies out of the government, local councils, universities and workplaces. Join the public meetings in Liverpool, Cardiff and London to learn more, including how you can get involved! BOOK YOUR TICKETS

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Poem | To the people of the UK: You have voted. Here is what will happen next

May 11, 2026 by Ishtiyaq Shukri

Poem | To the people of the UK: You have voted. Here is what will happen next
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

With heavy losses for the governing Labour party, and huge gains for the rightwing populist party, Reform UK, the results of last week's local elections on 7 May have reverberated through the UK like an earthquake. Here is what will happen next

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Is Catherine West MP a war criminal?

May 11, 2026 by Ishtiyaq Shukri

Is Catherine West MP a war criminal?
Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey & Friern Barnet, Haringey, north London. Photo: Catherine West

The Labour MP, Catherine West, has challenged the leadership of Keir Starmer. West, my local MP in the north London constituency of Hornsey and Friern Barnet, has much to answer for the genocide in Gaza.

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Jewish Londoners deserve to live without fear – we are taking action to ensure their safety

May 4, 2026 by Sadiq Khan

Jewish Londoners deserve to live without fear – we are taking action to ensure their safety
‘The horrific terror attack in Golders Green was just the latest in a series of antisemitic acts of violence that have targeted Jewish people.’ Photo: The Guardian/Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

During dark times, we must stand by our Jewish neighbours as generations of Londoners have done before us

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Standards in public office, respecting right to criticise

April 22, 2026 by Haringey Liberal Democrats

Standards in public office, respecting right to criticise
British Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood. Photo: The Guardian/Leon Neal/Getty Images

Dear Home Secretary, We are writing on behalf of constituents in Crouch End, Haringey, who have asked us to raise concerns about remarks you made at a public event recently.

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Calling for a public apology from UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood MP

April 22, 2026 by Ishtiyaq Shukri

Calling for a public apology from UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood MP
British Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood MP. Photo: UK Parliament, House of Commons

On Monday 20 April Shabana Mahmood told “white liberal” hecklers to “f**k right off”. Under no circumstances is this acceptable. With standards in public life in the UK slipping, community cohesion disintegrating, and democratic procedures eroding, Mahmood must be held to account for her abusive language. I have written to my local north London MP, Catherine West, and local councillors, calling for an apology from the home secretary, because everybody has the right to feel safe.

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Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t

April 13, 2026 by Kenneth Mohammed

Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t
Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, addresses the UN general assembly in New York ahead of the vote on 25 March. Photograph: Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations

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‘People are so judgmental’: the growing cohort of over-55s facing homelessness

April 9, 2026 by Rachel Hall

‘People are so judgmental’: the growing cohort of over-55s facing homelessness
Richard Hewett became homeless after a breakup. When he contracted sepsis, his right leg was amputated. Photo: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Richard Hewett, who was forced to sleep in his car when his relationship broke down, is one of many in the UK hit by rising costs and a lack of social housing

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