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Opinion: No, Covid-19 Isn’t a Chance to ‘End HIV’

Ben Weil

Sexual health campaigners have welcomed lockdown as an opportunity for more abstinence and less HIV transmission. This kind of thinking didn’t get us anywhere in the 1980s, and it won’t now.

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 […]

Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started

Rivkah Brown

The Tories' U-turn on schools was not merely the product of circumstance, but months of teacher organising. Now, with a multiplying membership and renewed confidence, unions are setting their sights beyond the pandemic to transforming their entire profession. Rivkah Brown reports.

The Bastani Factor: The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing

Humanity is getting older. But while the old outnumbering the young is one of the supreme achievements of our species, it comes with major challenges. Aaron Bastani on a crisis set to re-define societies around the world which, for the 21st century at least, is every bit as disruptive as climate change.

Opinion: Coronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the Economy

James Meadway

This crisis will require more than money to resolve; it will require the restructuring of our economy. This will be done either to the benefit of people and the planet, or it will not be, writes James Meadway.

Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk

Dr J

In part two of a series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E, Dr J asks how the language of 'difficult choices' and 'tough decisions' undercuts the key principles of a universal NHS while distracting us from the political decisions underlying the crisis.

Cold Comfort: A&E Fills With Those Left in the Cold

Dr J

In part one of a new series covering the NHS 'winter pressures' from within A&E, Dr J reflects on the relationship between housing and health, and what it means for rough sleepers and the hidden homeless.

Mental Health & Masculinity

Aaron Bastani talks mental health, masculinity and shares his own experience with depression.

Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS

Docs Not Cops

The Byron raids highlighted the extent to which companies are complicit in immigration enforcement, but the government's pursuit of a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants is asking NHS workers to police patients.

Beyond TTIP: The Murky Pro-Corporate Trade Agenda is Bad For Our Health

Diane Abbott

Although the EU referendum brought TTIP out into the light, Brexit won't stop the threat posed to public services by the pro-corporate trade agenda

How to Open up a Second Front in the Battle for the NHS

Keir Milburn

Today's all-out junior doctors' strike marked a step up in the fight for the NHS: not only was it the first healthcare strike where emergency cover was left to consultants, but supporters also targeted those who stand to gain from the privatisation of the NHS.

The Fix: Can the Junior Doctors’ strike save the NHS?

This week Michael Walker is joined by Aislinn Macklin-Doherty, Youssef El-Gingihy, Ellie-Mae O’Hagan and Paul McCrone to discuss the ongoing junior doctors' dispute and whether junior doctors can save our NHS from privatisation.

IMOBastani: Jeremy Hunt: Aristocrat, Liar, Secretary of State for Nepotism and Privatisation

In this bumper ‪#‎IMOBastani‬ Aaron explains why the secretary's plans ARE in fact a form of privatisation, and delves a little into Hunt's family history uncovering a web of greed and nepotism.

“I would call it state violence” – Luqman Onikosi on receiving a deportation death sentence

Luqman Onikosi was diagnosed with chronic liver illness while studying in the UK. Now the Home Office wants to deport him, despite medical facilities in Nigeria being inadequate to save his life. Aaron Bastani speaks to Luqman about facing deportation and the British state's treatment of non-EU citizens.

Does this humiliation have no end? Stop sending people like me to our deaths.

Luqman Onikosi

Luqman Onikosi was diagnosed with chronic liver illness while studying in the UK. Now the Home Office wants to deport him, despite medical facilities in Nigeria being inadequate to save his life. Here he reflects how the system is failing migrants with medical conditions.

Not Fair, Not Safe: 6 Reasons Junior Doctors Are Preparing to Strike

Nick Carpenter

Junior doctors are up in arms about the latest offensive from the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. From safety to pay to parental leave, Hunt has sought to impose harsh conditions and could now face the first strike by doctors in 40 years.

7 Reflections on the Cancer Drugs Fund and Big Pharma

Daniel Whittall

Vital drugs are being removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund, exposing the relationship between government, Big Pharma and the NHS in the provision of medication.

Big Pharma: 8 Reasons We Need to Talk About the Pharmaceutical Industry

Nick Carpenter

It's commonly said that the railways, NHS and post should be in public hands. Perhaps strangely, it would be less common to hear the same about the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry which is currently running circles around us.

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