The natural world, some claim, could be saved from destruction if only we established its monetary worth. In the first piece of a new series on isolation, connection and environmental breakdown, Adrienne Buller argues it’s time to free nature from finance.
With the latest round of party apparatchiks sworn into the House of Lords, our political system is becoming more and more inflected by patronage and nepotism. The Lords is a place for political parties, not democracy, argues Aaron Bastani - in fact that, alas, is its point.
Labour and SAGE are pushing for a circuit breaker lockdown to curtail the spread of Covid-19. But what would a “circuit breaker” really achieve? We ask Professor Karl Friston of Independent SAGE. Plus: Everything that’s wrong with the test and trace system, Micah Uetricht on Trump returning to the campaign trail, and a correction from […]
While it has already led to more than one million deaths, the consequences of Covid-19 go beyond just public health with 2020 experiencing the sharpest economic downturn in history. Of course much of that was intentional, with demobilisation seen as necessary to control the virus, but what are the longer term economic impacts? Will some […]
After a weekend of wrangling, Johnson has announced a three tier lockdown. Does this pandemic policy punish the North for Westminster failures? Plus, John Ashton on whether Merseyside was right to accept the highest lockdown restrictions and former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on why he believes it’s time for the prime minister to be replaced. […]
Rishi Sunak has annnounced an extension to the furlough and, once again, the realities of covid have forced the government into another screeching U-turn. Do the Tories still lack a strategy for dealing with the virus? Plus: Trump’s bizarre twitter vids and Number 10’s new spokesperson. With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial and James Meadway.
Trump's attempt to spin his coronavirus diagnosis to his advantage isn't working. Micah Uetricht explains why the president's illness is the worst-case scenario for him.
Sturgeon has announced scottish pubs will close for two weeks. With local lockdowns failing, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss whether the rest of the UK will soon follow suit? Plus, The growing backlash against 10pm curfew Unite slashes Labour funding UK’s booming arms trade.
Was Corbynism doomed from the start? That’s the question posed by Owen Jones in his new book, This Land.
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