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Activism

August 2024

  • Protest banners at a makeshift camp, with one reading 'HS2 is a bad idea'

    Climate activists in frame for £1m costs of protest bans run up by UK’s biggest law firm

    DLA Piper seeking to recover costs in relation to injunctions it secured for National Highways and HS2, records show
  • Madge Elliot with David Steel MP and the Earl of Dalkeith arriving to deliver a petition of 11,678 signatures in protest at the closure of the Waverley Route at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 18th December 1968.

    Other lives
    Madge Elliot obituary

    Other lives: Driving force in the campaign to save the Waverley route between Edinburgh and Carlisle from closure in the 1960s
    • Other lives
      Peter Gosnell obituary

    • ‘History repeating’: activists who opposed UK far right in 1970s urge solidarity

    • Other lives
      Judith Rattenbury obituary

July 2024

  • An older African woman with cropped grey hair wearing a turquoise blouse with an intricately embroidered collar

    Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72

  • Keri-Lynn Wilson

    When Putin invaded my country, I couldn’t take up arms – I raised my conductor’s baton instead

    Keri-Lynn Wilson
  • Alissar Gazal and Barbie in 1994 at the start of their relationship

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: she grasped my hand – and we went from political comrades to lovers

  • Ed Newton-Rex

    Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI

    Ed Newton-Rex
  • Was the jailing of Just Stop Oil protesters fair?

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

  • German punks launch ‘invasion’ of holiday island favoured by elite

  • Exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists blocked from accessing pensions

  • London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors

  • Leading questions
    I feel despair about the state of the world. How can I find the courage to not abandon hope?

  • 'Spy cops' scandal
    Spy cop who led special branch admits wrongly accusing activist of bomb plot

  • ‘Our backs are against the wall’: French grassroots mobilise against far right

  • Other lives
    Joan Winfield obituary

June 2024

  • Advertising for Baillie Gifford at the Hay Festival.

    Baillie Gifford boycotts achieve nothing

  • Tom Jeffreys

    Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

    Tom Jeffreys
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