Tag: coronavirus
The Rule of Six
From Sunday it will be illegal to meet up with a group of more than 6 people, unless your boss has told you so. Does the need for a tightening of lockdown rules show the government has lost control of covid 19? Is it sustainable to tell people they’re morally obliged to traipse into packed […]
Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down
Alice Figes
The Cosmic Right Is on the Rise in the UK. The Left Must Fight It With Reason
Keir Milburn
Is Capitalism to Blame for Covid-19?
Aaron Bastani
‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation
Laith Saad
How We Won: The Customers Who Saved Their Local Market
Laith Saad
Climate Change is Still Accelerating (Even If We Aren’t Talking About It)
Aaron Bastani
‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike
Sophie K Rosa
Classroom Warfare
Dishing out A-level results in the midst of a pandemic was always going to be hard. That doesn’t excuse a process which has turned into an unprecedented disaster, thrown up arbitrary grades, and dashed the hopes of thousands of young people. But with the poorest hit hardest, is this a case of government incompetence, or of […]
Kerala’s Pandemic Response Owes Its Success to Participatory Politics
David Jenkins and Lipin Ram
The Beirut Explosion
Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial speak to Dr Hicham Safieddine on the Beirut explosion and Harvard Epidemiologist Bill Hanage on COVID-19.
Hands, Face, Space… SPIKE?
A coronavirus spike means a tightening of Britain’s lockdown and a Tory MP blames ethnic minorities. Plus, Evgeny Lebdev, Claire Fox, John Woodcock and Boris Johnson’s brother get seats in the House of Lords. And Jane Heybroek’s legal battle with Tracy-Ann Oberman and Rachel Riley.
Still a Keir-liever?
After sacking Rebecca Long Bailey, apologising to antisemitism ‘whistleblowers’ and dropping numerous campaign pledges, much of Labour’s left is in despair about Keir Starmer. However, Paul Mason is still on board with the new Labour leader. We ask him why. Plus, Europe’s second coronavirus wave, and Newsweek’s Basit Mahmood on the EHRC’s poor record on race.
The Tenants Taking on Their Billionaire Landlord
Sophie K Rosa
Two-Thirds of Coronavirus Deaths Are of People With Disabilities
Sophie K Rosa
Rishi Sunak Isn’t Interested in Helping Young People – Free Labour Is Good for Business
Ellen Clifford
Britain and Coronavirus: It Couldn’t Have Been Worse
How bad has Britain’s response to the coronavirus been? Aaron Bastani looks at the data – and concludes that the evidence is damning.