As Boris Johnson passes legislation for a lockdown until the end of March, and after Chris Whitty suggested we might still need covid restrictions next winter, should we abandon hope of a covid-free post pandemic world? Plus, A&E doctor Tariq Jenner on how NHS hospitals are coping amid the pandemic, Bhaskar Sunkara on the Democrats […]
We speak to Labour MP Dawn Butler about institutional racism in Britain’s police. Plus, BBC breakfast go on a ‘migrant safari’, Andrew Neil is reportedly in the running as the next chair of the BBC, and David Miliband brands Corbyn and the Labour left ‘wreckers’.
Ash Sarkar explores how the language of minoritarian grievance has been appropriated by the most powerful people in political media.
The government have finally made masks mandatory in shops and Britain’s right-wingers are freaking out. Plus: Will the Tories beat Labour to a wealth tax? The UK ban Huawei and the BBC axe The Andrew Neil Show. With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial and James Meadway.
The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics, argues Aaron Bastani. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large.
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