Charlotte England

By sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey on a trumped-up pretext, Keir Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the British Labour Party. That shift comes just as the key arguments by Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents to justify a break with his left leadership have been falling apart in the face …

AirBike’s fleet is set to double from 200 to 400 under a new 12-month permit.

Margate’s once thriving seaside community has fallen on hard times. Is a new attempt to rebrand the town working – or is it just social engineering?

Exclusive: Local councils are turning away women like Linda, despite an obligation to house them

Wage disparity means women all across Europe are essentially working for free

From self-harming in groups to starvation and self-immolation, women are overwhelmingly more likely than men to hurt themselves while incarcerated. So why isn’t the prison system responding?

Women in Myanmar are not only the victims of war -- they can be smart negotiators and understand the conflict just as well as men. Why have their voices been excluded from the peace process for so long?

Thailand’s conservative Buddhist clergy refuses to acknowledge women who want to become monks. But that hasn’t deterred an increasing number of female monks who are striking out on their own.

Can Do in northern Thailand is probably the first—and only—completely sex worker-owned bar in the world.

Virtually nobody in Britain opposes a rent-cap, but could punishing landlords end up making the housing crisis even worse?

I spoke to David Graeber, whose slogans adorned the posters, about why most work is a total waste of time.

While at Dale Farm, I consider myself to have witnessed an incidence of ethnic cleansing. Basildon Council argued the site was built on green belt land. In reality, it was a former scrap yard.

A group of young mothers have petitioned local government and occupied abandoned homes in Newham, London, calling for ‘social housing not social cleansing’. Here they discuss the growing movement to combat the housing crisis and prevent evictions.

Eleni wants to go to school. She can read and write already and says emphatically: “I don’t want to be given to get married. I want to learn my letters, learn to speak Greek properly and be a hairdresser”.