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Opinion: How to Navigate Britain’s Broken Trans Healthcare System

OS Warren

You wait five years for a gender identity clinic appointment and once you’re in, it’s a nightmare. OS Warren offers strategies for navigating our punitive trans healthcare system.

Analysis: The Hostile Environment is Making Migrants Vulnerable to HIV

James Greig

Until the government ends the hostile environment, which deters migrants from accessing vital healthcare, its plan to end HIV transmission by 2030 is a pipedream. James Greig reports.

Novara Live: The Tory Plan to Privatise the NHS

Tomorrow MPs will vote on Sajid Javid's Health and Care Bill. Does it threaten to privatise the NHS by the back door? We speak to Dr Bob Gill.

Novara Live: Boris Johnson Reveals UK Plan for Net Zero

#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds up the red box outside Number 11 on his first Budget.

Analysis: Britain Needs to Get Over Its Obsession With Flat Taxes

Ell Folan

From national insurance to council tax, Britain has an unhealthy obsession with flat taxes that hit the poor hardest. It’s time for the British state to be funded fully by progressive taxation, writes Ell Folan.

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?

Novara Live: 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?

Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord

Sandeep Sandhu

Would-be NHS chief Dido Harding's attack on foreign-born health service workers is a tactical and dangerous erasure of British history, ripped straight from the Tory culture war playbook, writes Sandeep Sandhu.

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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.

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Analysis: How We Win: The State

James Schneider

If we aren’t preparing to use power, we are preparing to have it used against us. The left needs a state strategy, starting with municipal socialism to lay the groundwork for a national programme.

Novara Live: Slap for Carers

How did Boris Johnson go from clapping for carers to giving them a slap in the face?

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.

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 […]

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Analysis: The Rich Are Skipping the Vaccine Queue. What Are We Going to Do About It?

James Meadway

The coronavirus vaccine was never going to be entirely immune from market forces. But if we’re going to recover from this pandemic, or prevent another, we must radically rethink how we share the fruits of our scientific labours, writes James Meadway.

Novara Live: Breaking Point

Experts suggest new Covid infections in England may have finally peaked, but with two more weeks of rising hospital admissions expected, can the NHS avoid collapse?

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Opinion: I’m a Care Worker and I’m on Strike – Here’s Why

Andrene

After months of failed negotiations with management, workers at SAGE care home in Golders Green, north London, are going on strike this weekend. Here, one carer sets out what she's fighting for: not just her colleagues and residents, but the entire care industry.

Opinion: Sunak’s Spending Review Is a Drop of Water in a Desert – the Left Must Demand More

James Meadway

From divide-and-rule public sector pay freezes to ripe-for-corruption local spending schemes, Sunak's plan is radically insufficient for our current crisis. The left must forward an alternative, and quick, writes James Meadway.

Opinion: Mental Healthcare May Never Recover From Coronavirus

Sian Bradley

Despite a backlog of cases, the government still doesn’t have a plan for helping the already overstretched mental health sector cope with the strain brought on by Covid-19. This needs to change or the impact will be felt for years to come, argues Sian Bradley.

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