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TyskySour: Met Police Block Sue Gray’s Report Into Lockdown Parties

After originally refusing to investigate Downing Street Parties, the Met Police have now spiked the report that was supposed to tell us all the truth. Has Cressida Dick saved Boris Johnson?

TyskySour: Johnson’s Hollow Apology for Lockdown Party

Boris Johnson has admitted attending a lockdown party, but won't stop repeating his ridiculous excuses. Is it now time up for the PM?

TyskySour: Will the UK Lockdown Again This Xmas?

Boris Johnson is considering banning household mixing for a month after Christmas. Is it necessary, and why are the government again trading early action for extreme measures later?

TyskySour: Will Boosters Save Us From a Winter Lockdown?

Trials have shown booster shots to be incredibly effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19. Will it be enough to get us through winter without new restrictions?

TyskySour: When Should Lockdown End?

Does the successful vaccine rollout mean lockdown restrictions should be lifted?

nursery children and teachers playing together

Report: Early Years Practitioners Are Being Forced Into Work During Lockdown. Now They’re Getting Organised

by Sophie K Rosa

While teachers have fought for and won the closure of schools during lockdown, early years settings are being forced to stay open. Now, practitioners are starting to get organised. Sophie K Rosa reports.

TyskySour: London Into Tier 3 Lockdown

As cases surge, London is entering a Tier 3 lockdown. But with schools staying open, is time running out to prevent carnage this Christmas?

woman window coronavirus shielding shielder

Opinion: Shielders Have Been Abandoned During Lockdown – It Can’t Happen Again

by Jamie Hale

The government has failed shielding people in this second lockdown, argues Jamie Hale. It must act quickly and decisively to ensure they get the support they need and deserve.

TyskySour: Johnson’s Lockdown U-Turn

The Tories have been trashing the idea of a second English lockdown for weeks. They’ve finally implemented one in. But is it a month too late? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

TyskySour: Lockdown Reloaded

10 million people in the UK now live under local restrictions, and a nationwide lockdown looks to be incoming. Will the government come to regret bullying us into our offices, and giving us all discounts in pubs? Plus: why no-one understands government testing figures (including Matt Hancock); Priti Patel’s War on Cocaine; Joe Biden’s Beef […]

Opinion: The Real Reason Lockdown is Ending? Our Broken Economic System Has No Alternative

by Aaron Bastani

As Britain feigns a return to normality, it’s increasingly clear that the economy matters more to this government than human life. Aaron Bastani argues we aren’t exiting lockdown because it’s safe, but because there's no other option for our already broken economic system.

Opinion: All Work, No Sex: Boris Johnson’s ‘Road Map’ for Leaving Lockdown Is Driven by Ideology Not Science

by Sophie K Rosa

You can travel on packed public transport, but you can't protest police racism. You can go to work, but not to the home of a friend or family member - unless you're Dominic Cummings, of course. The government's plan for easing lockdown is as inadequate, ideological and inconsistent as Boris Johnson's overall handling of a pandemic in which he has presided over more than 50,000 deaths, writes Sophie K Rosa.

Report: BAME People Are More Likely to Have Been Fined for Breaking Lockdown Across the Country, FOI Data Shows

by Nic Murray

Exclusive: New figures obtained by FOI request suggest police forces outside of London were 4.4 times more likely to issue £60 fines to BAME people than to white people during the first week of lockdown. Nic Murray reports.

Report: ‘He should never have been discharged’: How Mental Health Patients Are Being Failed During Lockdown

by Natalie Leal

In the face of an already stretched mental health system, some patients' families are arguing that, in the rush to prepare for coronavirus, their relatives were let out too early and without sufficient safeguards and support in place, writes Natalie Leal.

Report: How Universal Credit Is Exacerbating Financial Abuse Under Lockdown

by Lucy Whitehouse

The way that universal credit is paid puts survivors of abuse at increased risk. With lockdown further exacerbating these issues, survivors and activists alike are calling for changes to the system to better protect those in danger, writes Lucy Whitehouse.

Report: ‘Are we going to be the next Grenfell?’: The People in Lockdown in Buildings With Fire Risks

by James Moules

Nearly three years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, dozens of buildings across the UK still have flammable cladding and other fire safety hazards. Under lockdown, people living in these buildings are terrified. James Moules reports from the north west.

TyskySour: Lifting the Lockdown (with Owen Jones)

Owen Jones joins Michael Walker to talk about the Tories mixed up lockdown messaging, VE Day and Keir Starmer getting smeared. Plus, Allyson Pollock on why we need an independent SAGE.

Lockdown Is Revealing the Need for Land Reform in the UK

by Yali Banton-Heath

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed issues concerning our access to land and housing, and the limits on our right to occupy common space. When lockdown is lifted, we must demand a land reform which affords space for us all, argues Yali Banton-Heath.