Report: Chinese Students Are At The Forefront Of Anti-Lockdown Protests
Jessie Lau
Since president Xi Jinping took power in 2012, activism has been constricted. For many young people, recent mass protests are their first taste of dissent.
Tag: lockdown
Opinion: We Need an Eviction Ban
Rivkah Brown
We had one in lockdown, writes Rivkah Brown. Why not now?
Report: Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way
Olly Haynes
Camped out in an empty Parisian office block, XY Media is a new media frontier of trans liberation. Olly Haynes reports.
Opinion: Britain Has Ditched Masks and Disabled People Along With Them
Sophie Buck
The end of mask mandates came not a moment too soon for many in Britain. This speaks volumes about our attitude towards society’s most vulnerable, writes Sophie Buck.
Novara Live: They Partied While the Queen Mourned
What's worse than partying while people suffer under lockdown rules? For the Tory grassroots, it might well be offending Her Majesty the Queen.
Novara Live: Johnson’s Hollow Apology for Lockdown Party
Boris Johnson has admitted attending a lockdown party, but won't stop repeating his ridiculous excuses. Is it now time up for the PM?
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?
Novara Live: Tories in Crisis After Xmas Party Jokes Leaked
A damning clip of Downing Street staffers joking about lockdown parties has thrown the government into crisis. Is this the scandal that could bring Johnson down?
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.
Feature: We’re All Working, All the Time
Polly Smythe
Long before the pandemic, remote working had created the expectation that workers be “always on”. It’s time we fought for our right to switch off, writes Polly Smythe.
Analysis: Has the Pandemic Shifted Britain Left?
Ell Folan
As we emerge from the pandemic, even the FT is claiming the left has won the argument. Have we really?
Report: Welcome to Slacker School: Learning From the Best How to Work the Least
Clare Hymer
Lockdown has clarified that there is more to our lives than bullshit jobs, and nothing better than living them on company time. Clare Hymer meets some of Britain's most skilled skivers.
Analysis: Lula’s Back, and Bolsonaro is Feeling the Heat
Benjamin Fogel
Climate and coronavirus breakdown are eroding support for the Brazilian strongman. Could the newly free ex-president hammer the nail in the coffin? Historian of Latin America Benjamin Fogel thinks so.
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.
Opinion: Even Without the ‘Vaccine Bounce’, Boris Johnson Would Still Be Winning
Samuel Earle
Boris Johnson's catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic has led Britain to one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. But it hasn't lost him voters. In fact, he’s gained new ones. In the first of a new series on the Tories and power, Samuel Earle looks at how the prime minister gets away with it.
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: After Coronavirus, We Need a New Mental Health System
Sophie K Rosa
With millions of us needing mental health support as a result of the coronavirus crisis, we’re going to need wholesale system change if we’re to recover from it. Sophie K Rosa meets the professionals campaigning for post-pandemic mental health reform.
Explainers: Is Your Boss Spying On You?
More than half of us think we’re being watched at work. We are, and we always have been.