Opinion: No 10’s Toxic Covid Culture Didn’t Just Vanish With the Tories
Ash Sarkar
The conditions that enabled Tory failures in the pandemic are still present in Keir Starmer’s government, writes Ash Sarkar.
Tag: covid
Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living
In an era suffused with loss and grief, for the dead and the yet to be born, how do we politicise our mourning? Critic Sarah Jaffe talks about her search for the ghosts of capitalism in her new book, From The Ashes.
Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?
Charlie Hertzog Young
By forcing people to work through illness, our inadequate sick pay system is a tool of domination, writes Charlie Hertzog Young. Let’s replace it with one that puts people before profit.
Opinion: Monkeypox is Giving Us Another Lesson in Medical Stigma
Dr Rita Issa & Dr Melissa Chowdhury
If we don’t learn the lessons of Covid-19 and the HIV/Aids epidemic, each new virus will bring the same old forms of discrimination. Dr Melissa Chowdhury and Dr Rita Issa explain.
Opinion: Keir Starmer is Getting a Taste of His Own Cop Medicine
Moya Lothian-McLean
'Beergate' is what happens when you preach a politics of punishment, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.
Novara Live: Boris Johnson Drops ALL Covid Regulations and Support
Boris Johnson has announced the end of all Covid restrictions, and the end of all Covid support. Is this "learning to live" with the virus?
Opinion: Johnson Should Go – And the Left Should Demand It
Jonas Marvin
While Boris Johnson was living it up at Downing Street, we locked down, suffered and died. If the left doesn’t harness the widespread fury over ‘partygate’, it’ll be missing a huge opportunity, argues Jonas Marvin.
Novara Live: Is Omicron Already Overwhelming UK Hospitals?
Boris Johnson has said England can "ride out" the Omicron wave. But at what cost will it come to the NHS? We speak to critical care nurse Dave Carr about the strain on Britain's hospitals.
Novara Live: 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?
Analysis: The Right Is Destroying Our Freedom and the Left Is Letting It Happen
Richard Seymour
With a nationalist far right resisting pandemic controls and progressives clamouring for them, the left needs a coherent response to metastasising state power - and fast.
Novara Live: Johnsons Resists Further Restrictions As Omicron Surges
Government scientists warn the UK could see over a million daily Covid cases within a week, yet Boris Johnson is resisting new restrictions. Is he now delaying the inevitable?
Novara Live: Johnson Ramps up Covid Booster Vaccine Campaign
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: The Omicron Variant Shows Big Pharma Won’t End the Pandemic
Tim Bierley
The development of Covid-19 vaccines was a huge boost for the pharmaceutical industry’s reputation. But the arrival of the Omicron variant makes it clearer than ever that a big pharma-led response to the pandemic won’t work, writes Tim Bierley.
Novara Live: Britain Prepares for Omicron
Omicron is here. Is Britain ready? Plus, we speak to Fatima Hassan in South Africa about how vaccine apartheid left us vulnerable to new variants.
Novara Live: 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?
Novara Live: Boris Johnson Reveals UK Plan for Net Zero
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Novara Live: The Worst Public Health Failure Ever
An official report has judged the UK's delayed lockdown to be Britain's worst ever public health failure. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial breakdown the key findings.
Novara Live: Boris Johnson Set to Announce Covid Winter Plan
Johnson's Covid winter plan includes jabs for teenagers and boosters for the vulnerable, but wider measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are set to be absent. Will it be enough to avoid another nightmare winter?