
Tag: coronavirus


Novara Live: 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 […]

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down
Alice Figes

Opinion: The Cosmic Right Is on the Rise in the UK. The Left Must Fight It With Reason
Keir Milburn

Opinion: Is Capitalism to Blame for Covid-19?
Aaron Bastani
Deforestation and climate change will increase the likelihood of future pandemics. Aaron Bastani asks: how many more outbreaks will it take before we realise our economic system is not only undermining the health of our planet, but our health as a species too?

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation
Laith Saad
22 refugees at notorious immigration removal centre Brook House have gone on hunger strike in protest of their imminent deportations. Laith Saad reports.

Report: How We Won: The Customers Who Saved Their Local Market
Laith Saad
Loyal customers banded together to save their beloved local market from eviction in what became one of the most innovative fights against gentrification in recent memory. Laith Saad reports in the first instalment of How We Won, a new series which celebrates the victories of grassroots campaigns across the country.

Opinion: Climate Change is Still Accelerating (Even If We Aren’t Talking About It)
Aaron Bastani

Report: ‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike
Sophie K Rosa
Facing redundancy during a national recession and global pandemic, Tate workers are going on strike, arguing that, despite the art institution’s socially conscious image, it is the lowest-paid and most diverse workers who will be worst impacted. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Novara Live: 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 […]

International: Kerala’s Pandemic Response Owes Its Success to Participatory Politics
David Jenkins and Lipin Ram
Kerala's response to the Covid-19 crisis has received worldwide praise. What’s been missed, however, is the importance of the state’s ‘politics of participation’ and the role of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in engendering this politics, argue David Jenkins and Lipin Ram.

Novara Live: 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.

Novara Live: 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.

Novara Live: 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.

Report: The Tenants Taking on Their Billionaire Landlord
Sophie K Rosa

Report: Two-Thirds of Coronavirus Deaths Are of People With Disabilities
Sophie K Rosa

Opinion: Rishi Sunak Isn’t Interested in Helping Young People – Free Labour Is Good for Business
Ellen Clifford

The Bastani Factor: 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.