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Nadia Whittome

Nadia Whittome is a Labour Party MP for Nottingham East

<p>‘From Mamdani to Zack Polanski, politicians willing to take on the status quo on both sides of the Atlantic are surging. We can’t bury our heads in the sand to this reality’</p>

Labour needs its own Mamdani moment

<p>People crossing the English Channel on an inflatable boat near Dover</p>

How to make people care about migrant deaths – and stop them happening

<p>Sex workers will exist for as long as poverty exists and women have limited options, no matter how harshly the government punishes them or their clients</p>

Do we really need more proof that sex work should be decriminalised?

<p>‘Trans people are constantly spoken for and spoken over; the conversation about them is had without them’ </p>

The BBC is wrong to withdraw from Stonewall’s programme

<p>‘We need to be taught about and prepared to adapt to our changing world’ </p>

Climate education must become a legal requirement in schools

Labour should seize the chance of European elections