Puru Miah
Puru Miah is a Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, East London.
A Covid New World of ever-growing inequality
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the UK, Puru Miah reports how inequality and racism is seeing Covid-19 hit the Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities hardest of all
The Muslims are immune
Puru Miah finds Trevor Philips’ appointment as adviser to Public Health England and his Times comments about Muslims and Covid-19 deeply objectionable
Mutual Aid groups and Covid-19: a grassroots demand for social insurance
Puru Miah sees the flowering of Mutual Aid groups as a signal for a new form of social insurance that includes a universal basic income