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Following the media circus on the general election campaign trail

Hacks on tour! — Following every mediocre politician was an army of bored and tired journos.

  • Photography
  • Theo McInnes

'The Tories might be in government, but they are barely clinging on to power'

Huck meets John McDonnell — We catch up with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell at Rag’n’Bone Man's Glastonbury set, and talk Jeremy Corbyn, the Grenfell Tower tragedy, and ask who really leaked the Labour manifesto?

  • Reportage
  • Michael Segalov

A young mother commutes from Mexico to the US

Huck Film: Mitad Y Mitad — Karla Nutter commutes every day from Juárez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, straddling a line that her husband is barred from crossing. Her story is shared in Mitad Y Mitad (Half and Half), an original Huck film.

  • Film
  • Andrea Kurland

I learned first-hand how harmful Tim Farron's views on gay people are

From Where I Stand — Tim Farron's resignation as Lib Dem leader sees him playing the victim, but the reality is Britain has rejected his outdated views that caused me and other young gay men so much pain.

  • Opinion
  • Benny Hunter

After this general election, I’m finally proud to be British

From Where I Stand — It's a strange feeling, for someone who for so long despaired at the state of the United Kingdom, to now feel proud of its people.

  • Opinion
  • Michael Segalov

They say we can't win, but on Thursday vote Labour anyway

From Where I Stand — They've told us we'll lose and that we're stupid, that Labour is dead and we don't deserve a better quality of life. Do you know what? Josie Long reckons you should just vote Labour anyway.

  • Opinion
  • Josie Long

From music to politics, GIRLI is sick of young people not being taken seriously

No shits given — When 19-year-old GIRLI got started in the music industry as a teenager, promoters and punters laughed in her face. Now she's demanding all young people be listened to, whether it's on stage or at the ballot box.

  • Music
  • Michael Segalov

Jeremy Corbyn's bee pledge is a metaphor for this entire general election

From Where I Stand — Jeremy Corbyn didn't just include a reference to saving bees in the Labour manifesto because he cares about the planet. It's a subtle reminder to us all that this general election and Bee Movie are one and the same: we are comrades in a class struggle as a useless queen watches on.

  • Opinion
  • Peter Bowden

The return of the fox hunt and our demented aristocracy’s obsession with death

From Where I Stand — Of course Theresa May has pledged her allegiance to fox hunting, the ruling-class are reasserting their power in the most deranged, blood-thirsty way they know how.

  • Opinion
  • Sam Kriss

Jeremy Corbyn, Tim Farron and Michael Gove just got pranked

*Withheld number* — General Elections are pretty tedious, especially when the Conservative Party looks set for a landslide. Heydon Prowse decided to prank call some politicians because, well, why not?

  • Activism
  • Michael Segalov

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