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Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

World | Monday 17th Mar 2025

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Features | Thursday 13th Mar 2025

Make anti-racism cool again

World | Wednesday 29th Jan 2025

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Monday 23rd Sep 2019

Diane Abbott tells conference 'haters gonna hate'

BRITAIN’S first black female MP received rapturous applause from Labour members as she slammed the Tories for trying to win votes with “dog-whistle

Sunday 22nd Sep 2019

XR broadcasts 'alternative shipping forecast' warning of climate chaos outside Labour conference

HUNDREDS of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have wheeled a mock lighthouse ship, the size of a double-decker bus, towards the Labour Party conf

Tuesday 03rd Mar 2020

EU complicit in Libyan Coastguard's ‘crimes against humanity,’ migrant rescue NGO charges

THE European Union is complicit in “crimes against humanity” because of its support for the Libyan coastguard, a migrant rescue charity said today

Thursday 19th Sep 2019

Police raid migrant squats in central Athens

POLICE officers raided two refugee squats in central Athens in the early hours of this morning, evicting over 250 people, including roughly 70 chil

Wednesday 18th Sep 2019

US launches lawsuit against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's new book

The former CIA employee's memoirs, Permanent Record, becomes best-selling book hours after the Justice Department's move

Wednesday 18th Sep 2019

Bleeding pregnant woman one of 45 migrants rescued from wooden ship near Malta

Friday 13th Sep 2019

Italy claims EU agrees deal to take in migrants on the Ocean Viking but crew says it's not been given a port

THE NGO migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking with 82 migrants on board remains at sea without a port of safety despite Italy declaring yesterday that i

Tuesday 10th Sep 2019

Malta finally allows migrants on board the Alan Kurdi to disembark after a ten day stand-off

MALTA has finally agreed this evening to allow an NGO migrant rescue ship with five survivors on board to enter its ports, putting an end to yet an

Thursday 29th Aug 2019

Trump rolls back regulations on methane leaks bringing ecological Armageddon one step closer

The fossil gas is considered more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide

Thursday 29th Aug 2019

West Papuan independence activists continue protests as Indonesian government buildings burn

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Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Make anti-racism cool again

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Diane Abbott tells conference 'haters gonna hate'

BRITAIN’S first black female MP received rapturous applause from Labour members as she slammed the Tories for trying to win votes with “dog-whistle

XR broadcasts 'alternative shipping forecast' warning of climate chaos outside Labour conference

HUNDREDS of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have wheeled a mock lighthouse ship, the size of a double-decker bus, towards the Labour Party conf

EU complicit in Libyan Coastguard's ‘crimes against humanity,’ migrant rescue NGO charges

THE European Union is complicit in “crimes against humanity” because of its support for the Libyan coastguard, a migrant rescue charity said today

Police raid migrant squats in central Athens

POLICE officers raided two refugee squats in central Athens in the early hours of this morning, evicting over 250 people, including roughly 70 chil

US launches lawsuit against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's new book

The former CIA employee's memoirs, Permanent Record, becomes best-selling book hours after the Justice Department's move

Bleeding pregnant woman one of 45 migrants rescued from wooden ship near Malta

Italy claims EU agrees deal to take in migrants on the Ocean Viking but crew says it's not been given a port

THE NGO migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking with 82 migrants on board remains at sea without a port of safety despite Italy declaring yesterday that i

Malta finally allows migrants on board the Alan Kurdi to disembark after a ten day stand-off

MALTA has finally agreed this evening to allow an NGO migrant rescue ship with five survivors on board to enter its ports, putting an end to yet an

Trump rolls back regulations on methane leaks bringing ecological Armageddon one step closer

The fossil gas is considered more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide

West Papuan independence activists continue protests as Indonesian government buildings burn

THOUSANDS of West Papuan independence activists continued their protest against Indonesian control today as violence spread and government building

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