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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

Friday 05th Jul 2019

Chomsky speaks out against the attacks on Chris Williamson

US DISSIDENT intellectual and left-wing activist Professor Noam Chomsky has spoken out against the attacks on Derby North MP Chris Williamson, sayi

Wednesday 03rd Jul 2019

Judge frees migrant rescue captain Carola Rackete from house arrest

THE captain who defied Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was freed from house arrest yesterday after a judge dismissed some of the

Tuesday 02nd Jul 2019

Captain Carola Rackete acted within the law, Sea Watch co-founder says

THE co-founder of Sea Watch says that the captain of the ship that carries out the rescue charity’s work in the Mediterranean has done nothing wron

Friday 19th Jul 2019

Italy arrests migrant rescue ship captain after bringing 40 migrants to Lampedusa

Carola Rackete says Europe's handling of the survivors is ‘inhumane, unacceptable and probably against every single constitution those people claim to represent’

Sunday 30th Jun 2019

Captain of stranded migrant rescue ship barred from Italy says ‘the law is definitely on my side’

Sea Watch 3 skipper Carola Rackete could face a €50,000 fine for disembarking the 40 migrants she has on board on Lampedusa

Sunday 30th Jun 2019

Migrant rescue captain to defy Salvini and attempt to bring rescued refugees ashore

Sea Watch 3 skipper Carola Rackete says she knows the far-right politician will try to prosecute her but the lives of the 42 migrants on board ‘are more important than any political game’

Saturday 15th Jun 2019

‘Give Puma the boot,’ human rights activists urge

Campaigners answer Palestinians' call and join international protests

Thursday 06th Jun 2019

Men's Rugby Ken Macharia avoids detention but ‘the fight isn't over,’ team warns

GAY rugby player and asylum-seeker Ken Macharia was not detained yesterday when he reported into Bridgewater police station as ordered to do so aft

Thursday 06th Jun 2019

Interview ‘I don't want to go back to Kenya and hide my sexuality’

Gay rugby player KEN MACHARIA will report to Bridgewater Police station today where he fears he may be detained. He tells Ben Cowles his story

Tuesday 04th Jun 2019

Sudan's military junta calls for elections as its paramilitary force continues bloodbath

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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

Chomsky speaks out against the attacks on Chris Williamson

US DISSIDENT intellectual and left-wing activist Professor Noam Chomsky has spoken out against the attacks on Derby North MP Chris Williamson, sayi

Judge frees migrant rescue captain Carola Rackete from house arrest

THE captain who defied Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was freed from house arrest yesterday after a judge dismissed some of the

Captain Carola Rackete acted within the law, Sea Watch co-founder says

THE co-founder of Sea Watch says that the captain of the ship that carries out the rescue charity’s work in the Mediterranean has done nothing wron

Italy arrests migrant rescue ship captain after bringing 40 migrants to Lampedusa

Carola Rackete says Europe's handling of the survivors is ‘inhumane, unacceptable and probably against every single constitution those people claim to represent’

Captain of stranded migrant rescue ship barred from Italy says ‘the law is definitely on my side’

Sea Watch 3 skipper Carola Rackete could face a €50,000 fine for disembarking the 40 migrants she has on board on Lampedusa

Migrant rescue captain to defy Salvini and attempt to bring rescued refugees ashore

Sea Watch 3 skipper Carola Rackete says she knows the far-right politician will try to prosecute her but the lives of the 42 migrants on board ‘are more important than any political game’

‘Give Puma the boot,’ human rights activists urge

Campaigners answer Palestinians' call and join international protests

Men's Rugby Ken Macharia avoids detention but ‘the fight isn't over,’ team warns

GAY rugby player and asylum-seeker Ken Macharia was not detained yesterday when he reported into Bridgewater police station as ordered to do so aft

Interview ‘I don't want to go back to Kenya and hide my sexuality’

Gay rugby player KEN MACHARIA will report to Bridgewater Police station today where he fears he may be detained. He tells Ben Cowles his story

Sudan's military junta calls for elections as its paramilitary force continues bloodbath

THE head of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) announced today that negotiations with the civilian-led opposition were over and calle

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