Why Sajid Javid Is a Danger to the NHS
Sajid Javid has replaced Matt Hancock as health secretary, is a lockdown sceptic and a banker at JP Morgan. Should Britons trust their health in his hands?
Tag: health
No, Covid-19 Isn’t a Chance to ‘End HIV’
Ben Weil
This kind of thinking didn’t get us anywhere in the 1980s, and it won’t now.
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 […]
Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started
Rivkah Brown
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.
Coronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the Economy
James Meadway
Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk
Dr J
Cold Comfort: A&E Fills With Those Left in the Cold
Dr J
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
Beyond TTIP: The Murky Pro-Corporate Trade Agenda is Bad For Our Health
Diane Abbott
How to Open up a Second Front in the Battle for the NHS
Keir Milburn
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.
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
Not Fair, Not Safe: 6 Reasons Junior Doctors Are Preparing to Strike
Nick Carpenter
