Opinion: Trust Me, Private Healthcare is a Shitshow
by Luke Savage
America spends more money on a worse system that voters hate, writes Luke Savage. So why are UK politicians pretending privatisation will fix the NHS?
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Live: Boris Johnson’s Reboot Stunted by Sunak
Boris Johnson's new chief spin doctor has decided the way to win back the trust of an insulted public is to increase the level of banter.
Michael Walker & Ash Sarkar try to make it make sense.
Opinion: Sajid Javid Wants Us to Believe Oximeters Create Racism
by Shanice McBean
Last week the health secretary launched an investigation into racial bias in medical technologies. It's certainly easier than investigating the real reasons for disproportionate Black deaths during the pandemic, writes Shanice McBean.
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.
Live: Boris Johnson Reveals UK Plan for Net Zero
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Live: Javid Admits Summer Covid-19 Infections Could Hit Millions
Sajid Javid has admitted Covid-19 cases may soon hit a record 100,000 a day. Analysis suggests this could lead to up to 10 million self-isolating in a summer of Covid chaos.
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?
Opinion: The 2020 Budget Shows the Tories Are Playing by New Rules
by Aaron Bastani
Did Rishi Sunak just end austerity? No. Is Britain adequately preparing for the panoply of crises set to define the coming decades? Also no. But make no mistake, writes Aaron Bastani, this was the first Tory budget since 2010 to abandon the neoliberal frame of ‘necessity', demonstrating how Labour under Corbyn won certain arguments.
The Bastani Factor: Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔
The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?
No Such Thing As Society? Soon There May Be No Such Thing As the Conservative Party
by Aaron Bastani
Boris Johnson's first six weeks as prime minister, and especially his first week back in parliament, have exposed the deep mediocrity of his political abilities. But his premiership is a product of a wider trend in the Tories which could soon eat the party up, argues Aaron Bastani.
Live: Dinghies, Warships and Windrush: the Politics of Migration in 2019
In December 114 people attempted to cross the channel, that compares to 6,912 people who attempted to cross the Mediterranean in the same month. So why all the fuss? Michael is joined by Omar Khan and Dalia Gebrial to discuss the UK’s warped view of migration, and why, only months after the Windrush scandal, the […]
The Global Refugee Crisis is at Our Shores, and We Need to Take It Seriously
by Adam Bates
As Sajid Javid calls migrants crossing the Channel a "major incident", it’s easy for the left to want to dismiss his reaction as hyperbolic. But with thousands risking death to reach Europe each year this clearly is a crisis-level situation, and we must be making bold arguments for how the global response should be reconfigured.
Amber Rudd is a Symbol of a Failed, Feral Political Class – Her Resignation Must Be Just the Beginning
by Aaron Bastani
While the view among ‘moderate Conservatives’ is that Amber Rudd’s resignation is a blow to progressives everywhere, her track record reveals a mediocre politician with no discernible moral principles. In fact, the Tory party has no progressives at all, argues Aaron Bastani.
New Face at the Home Office, But No New Answers to Knife Crime
by Huda Elmi
Sajid Javid is now at the helm of the government’s ‘serious violence strategy’, launched in March to address the UK's knife crime epidemic. But just because he’s the first BME home secretary it doesn’t mean he’ll implement the multi-agency reforms needed to tackle the problem, argues Huda Elmi.