Tenants, unions and politicians back calls for a rent freeze

Flat Broke

As rents in UK cities continue to skyrocket, Sadiq Khan, Mick Lynch and others have joined forces to call on the Government for immediate action.

Art & Culture

Intimate photos of love and loneliness in rural Russia

Exploring a world that doesn’t fit into the neat narrative of "Putin’s Russia", photographer Nadia Sablin takes a decade-long look at a small village and its inhabitants, institutions, nature, and mythology.

News & Politics

Inside the Stratford theatre being used as a warm bank

To freeze, or not to freeze?

With hundreds of thousands of people accessing warm banks each week, we travelled to ex-chancellor Nadhim Zahawi's constituency to find out why a Royal Shakespeare Company venue has opened as a place for the community to shelter from the cold.

News & Politics > Activism

Meet the ‘trollhunters’ battling climate disinformation online

Hoax so simple

Fuelled by their passion for the environment and disdain for “nonsense”, an anonymous collective called Team Ninja Trollhunters is patrolling Twitter for accounts spreading climate crisis conspiracies and denialism.

News & Politics

Conspiracies are depoliticising Turkey’s earthquake crisis

Disaster politics

As public anger over Erdoğan's response to the disaster grows, the focus on government culpability is being splintered by the promotion of conspiracy theories online and through state-owned media.