Analysis: How We Win: The World
James Schneider
Our enemies are globally networked; so must we be. In the fifth instalment of How We Win, James Schneider sets out an internationalist strategy for the 2020s.
Tag: covid-19
Report: If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It
Rivkah Brown
On Saturday, police banned a vigil for Sarah Everard - hundreds turned out anyway. The new policing bill may threaten our right to protest, but we already know how to resist. Rivkah Brown reports on a resurgence in civil disobedience.
Opinion: Being in Prison During Covid-19 Was Hell – but Pandemic or Not, the System Ruins Lives
Sam, as told to Sophie K Rosa
Inmates have endured unthinkable conditions during this pandemic, but even before coronavirus, being in prison was like lockdown on steroids. Sam, who has just finished a 30-month sentence, recounts his experience to Sophie K Rosa.
Report: The Women Who Can’t Strike Today Are Exactly Why We Must
Sophie K Rosa
The pandemic has shown how women's work is disproportionately underpaid, undervalued and unsafe. On International Women's Day, many have gone on strike, but many more won't be able to. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Report: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame
Sophie K Rosa
Despite the government's assurances that anyone, regardless of their settlement status, can receive the coronavirus vaccine, many migrants are still afraid to do so. Sophie K Rosa looks at how the hostile environment has created a culture of fear around healthcare.
Analysis: No, Benefit Claimants Still Aren’t Exploiting the System
Josh Gabert-Doyon
The digitisation of Universal Credit is reinforcing old prejudices about benefit fraud, fuelling a new moral panic. Josh Gabert Doyon explains what's actually going on.
Novara Live: Jail Time for Travel Breaches
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the health secretary's announcement of 10 year-jail sentences for breaching Covid travel restrictions.
Opinion: Covid-19 Has Shown Humanity’s Vulnerability. It’s Time to Take Existential Risks Seriously
Aaron Bastani
Some in the scientific community believe a future pathogen - one more deadly than Covid-19 - is the greatest immediate threat to the survival of our species. The good news is that this threat is avoidable - but only through global cooperation, argues Aaron Bastani.
Downstream: Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? Richard Horton
A year after the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, with Britain enduring more than a 100,000 deaths since, a number of major questions remain unanswered. Why was the response of the UK among the worst in the world? How is it possible that the death toll of countries in Europe and North America […]
Opinion: Think the Tories Can’t Possibly Paint Britain’s Pandemic Response As a Triumph? Think Again
Aaron Bastani
From the failures of WW2 to the horrors of empire, Britain is incapable of an honest reckoning with its history. There’s no reason to think that in a decade's time, Covid-19 won't just be another notch in a record of national self-delusion, argues Aaron Bastani.
Report: Early Years Practitioners Are Being Forced Into Work During Lockdown. Now They’re Getting Organised
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.
Opinion: To Stop the Far Right, Biden Must Fight for the Average American
Micah Uetricht
When he enters the White House on Wednesday, Joe Biden will have a rare opportunity to push through a bold agenda that improves the lives of average Americans, writes Micah Uetricht. Failure to do so could mean handing the levers of government to a Republican far more destructive than Trump.
The Bastani Factor: “This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?
Opinion: When Will Britain’s Politicians Have the Guts to Take Lessons From Asia?
Aaron Bastani
Vietnam - a country with almost 100 million people, a huge land border with China and only a third of the wealth of Bulgaria - has lost just 35 lives to Covid-19 while also seeing its economy grow last year, notes Aaron Bastani. Why is the UK failing to learn from Asia's success stories?
Opinion: The Rapid Development of Covid Vaccines Shows How Healthcare Will Completely Change. But Who Will Benefit?
Aaron Bastani
The scientific response to Covid-19 illustrates humanity’s immense capacity for problem-solving, writes Aaron Bastani. But in order for us all to benefit from new healthcare technologies, we must dismantle an economic system that is holding us back.
Opinion: Could ‘Cancelled Christmas’ Help Us Imagine a World Beyond the Nuclear Family?
Sophie K Rosa
As we process the collective pain of ‘cancelled Christmas’, some people are imagining forms of connection and care beyond the nuclear family, writes Sophie K Rosa, ones that might help sustain us in crises to come.
Opinion: Spain Is Considering a Four-Day Week – What’s Stopping Britain Doing the Same?
James Meadway
To a British public jaded by a decade of austerity, a four-day week seems like a pipe dream, writes James Meadway. Yet as the authors of a new book argue, and as developments in Spain demonstrate, that is far from being the case.
Novara Live: The Vaccine Rush
The UK will start administering a coronavirus vaccine next week. But how did Britain manage to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine quicker than its peers, and should we worry that speed came at the expense of certainty? We speak to Professor Deenan Pillay of Independent SAGE. Plus: Aidan Harper on a 4 day week; UK government […]