Facing oblivion
Simon Tait reports on the dire prospects for the arts in a time of Covid
Government stonewalls on justice for families
Jo Goodman on growing urgency for government inquiry into Covid-19 deaths
A Track and Trace plan to more deaths
A top-down, over-centralised government Track and Trace system is failing poorer communities, reports Puru Miah
Johnson’s own goal
Trevor Fisher on the contradictions between policies on pubs and pitches
The great Covid-19 swindle
Tom Miller says austerity continues for councils
Women in coronavirus firing line
Alice Arkwright sees a roll-back of gender equality in Covid-19 crisis
Covid-19 – a legacy of failure
Allyson Pollock and Louisa Harding-Edgar say there is also an opportunity to end the neoliberalism that got us to this point
I lost my father
Jo Goodman on a new group set up to hold the government to account for its handling of the Covid pandemic
Domestic violence during Covid-19
Sabia Kamali reports on the rise in abuse against women during coronavirus and the Sisters Forum support initiative
When black lives don’t matter
The recent Public Health England report on the impact of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities contains no action plan and sidesteps equalities law, says Puru Miah
Paying for the pandemic – war lessons for Labour
Dennis Leech argues that when it comes to paying for the pandemic, Labour should learn the lessons of the two world wars: austerity is not sound economics for recovery