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Zohran Mamdani has turned down an 18% pay rise that would have brought his salary to $305,800 (£227,645). “I haven’t knocked on anyone’s door in New York City and they’ve said their concern is that the mayor makes too little,” he told reporters on Thursday. The same day, members of the city council voted to approve a pay raise for themselves and other officials.
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'It's a comedy show, isn't it? It's a comedy show. And Donald Trump is also a comedian.' Aaron Bastani in conversation with Gary Stevenson (Gary Stevenson), following his most recent appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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Is Gary Stevenson a “populist rabble rouser”? On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar says she agreed with Gary Stevenson when he proposed a 2% wealth tax on people who own assets worth more than £10m. She also points out that Dan Neidle – who said the idea was “absolute populist claptrap” – comes with his own political origin story.
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The US has signalled that it will refocus its so-called counterterrorism efforts on repressing leftwing groups. In a speech to officials from more than 60 countries on Thursday, secretary of state Marco Rubio said "far-left terror" had been overlooked for too long. It comes as Donald Trump’s administration intensifies its crackdown on activists opposing alleged rights abuses by federal immigration agents, as well as opponents of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the proliferation of AI data centres.
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84-year old retired priest Sue Parfitt has been repeatedly arrested for breaking counter-terror law by holding signs to protest the proscription of Palestine Action. Today, she went further than ever before, vocally expressing support for the group, and encouraging the police arresting her to join her in that support. She was arrested under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a criminal offence that carries a sentence of up to 14-years. She told Novara Media why she’ll continue to break the law.
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"We don't talk about how China actually, on some of these goals, again hunger, poverty, climate action, is literally number one in the world in terms of real action – and not just talk." Ash Sarkar in conversation with top economist, Mariana Mazzucato (Mariana Mazzucato), discussing whether her theory of mission-oriented economics is the same as China's. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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"If the British government is going to be completely dominated by the bond market, MPs might as well go home." Diane Abbott told Cathy Newman on Sky News that whoever replaces Keir Starmer as prime minister must go through a "properly organised selection process", regardless of any "hissy fit" made by the bond markets. When this provoked laughter from Newman and eye rolling from former Conservative cabinet minister Gillian Keegan, Diane Abbott argued that there's no point in having a parliament if the financial sector always has the final word.
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Being working class isn’t about manners or accent. It’s about whether you depend on your wages to maintain your lifestyle, says British trade unionist Michael Lynch. “If you have to get up when the alarm clock rings and go out and do a job – and you depend on your earnings, rather than your assets – you are working class,” he explained.
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“There’s one thing more powerful than a billionaire – and it’s a union.” Hours before the 2026 Met Gala, which was sponsored by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, union organisers put on a ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ in New York, featuring Amazon delivery drivers, warehouse workers and campaigners. “Working people are underpaid, undervalued and under-appreciated,” said co-host Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. “Let those billionaires uptown have their Met party – we’re going to have something way more fabulous down here!”
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A Congolese man died in Dublin on Friday after he was restrained by several security guards in an alleged shoplifting incident – prompting widespread anger and calls for justice. Video of the incident showed several guards on top of Yves Sakila, 35, in Dublin city centre as he cried out in distress. At one point, a guard appears to kneel on his head or neck. He later appears to become unresponsive. Police are investigating. The footage has prompted comparisons with the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Local community members held a vigil on Tuesday, chanting “justice for Yves”. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is demanding that the death be “swiftly, thoroughly and transparently investigated”.
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What could be funnier than the idea that Nigel Farage is an honest man? On Newsnight, Green party MP Hannah Spencer faced off against Reform's candidate for London mayor Laila Cunningham – and laughed at the suggestion that Farage has been "very honest" amid a scandal over an undeclared £5m gift. Spencer said Farage’s decision to trigger and then stand in a new byelection – which he has presented as a referendum on his character amid allegations of wrongdoing – will be bad for his constituents. "What it does is it throws people in that constituency, who are already struggling, like so many people in the country, into further turmoil," Spencer said.
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'People are going to retire, and they are going to retire into pretty abject poverty. It's difficult living in private rented housing as someone in your 20s or 30s. It's impossible to live in private rented housing as someone in your 80s and 90s.' Aaron Bastani in conversation with housing expert and journalist, Peter Apps. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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"Keir Starmer said: ‘Well, if you don’t like it, leave.’ So I did, and Jeremy and I – along with millions of others – are going to build something new and different. And they are rattled." In her first interview since resigning from the Labour Party, Zarah Sultana MP sets out her pitch for her and Jeremy Corbyn's new party.
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A foreign office minister has caused outrage after implying Jeremy Corbyn used antisemitic language while speaking out against the UK’s arming of the Israeli military. Lincoln MP Hamish Falconer was speaking during an urgent question in the House of Commons about the proposed expansion of the illegal E1 settlement in the West Bank, which would see Israel build more than 3,000 homes there. Falconer criticised the E1 project, which he said would divide the area “in two” and “mark a serious breach of international law”. He confirmed that ministers were “in discussions” over a ban on goods from Israeli West Bank settlements. But Corbyn, the Your Party parliamentary leader, said such a measure would be toothless without also stemming the flow of weapons and military cooperation to Israel. “It is Israel's strategy, Israel's plan, and Israel's determination we are up against. Merely condemning them for this occupation of E1 will achieve nothing,” Corbyn said. “There has to be a policy of stopping all arms trade and military cooperation of any sort with Israel until they end this settlement policy. Anything less than that simply will be just hand-wringing that the Israeli government will just ignore.” In response, Falconer said MPs needed to be “really careful in our language”.
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“You can’t be the prime minister and be that anti-political.” Andy Burnham said he didn’t want to “create new divisions” when asked by Gary Lineker if he would set up a wealth tax. On Novara Live, Michael Walker says Burnham is a “classic people pleaser”. “You’re not campaigning in a byelection anymore,” adds Aaron Bastani.
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Dylan Law is a 20-year-old from Hackney who’s pissed off with his local council – and now he’s running to change it. On 7 May, Dylan is standing as a Green party candidate in the Hackney Downs ward. He's also struck a deal with Hackney mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett that if she’s elected, she’ll appoint him her deputy. At the launch of the Greens’ local election campaign on Thursday, Dylan spoke to Rivkah Brown about the Labour party’s escalating attacks on the Greens.
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