Coronavirus

Tories fiddle while cost of living crisis intensifies

In the wake of the Government’s own fraud minister resigning, Prem Sikka identifies a multibillion-pound scandal

Government talks big, acts small

Frances O’Grady outlines the TUC recovery plan to combat pay squeeze

No one safe until all safe

Nick Dearden says Britain must follow US in agreeing a patent waiver

Government delay spells unnecessary deaths

As Scotland plans to open a judge-led inquiry by the end of the year, Jo Goodman challenges the Westminster Government’s deadly delay in holding a full public inquiry into the Covid-19 crisis

Government puts workplace safety on back burner

Paul Nowak indicts the government for its cavalier approach

Tories building back insecurity

Kate Bell on how unions pushed the Tories on furlough scheme but stop-start short-termism is creating unnecessary redundancies, especially among Black workers

Battered and vital

Ralph Berry on how the Covid pandemic has revealed the value of local partnerships

Covid lays bare lies of austerity

Tory hostile environment has deepened health inequalities during pandemic, says Farah El-Sharnouby

Tories caught out on schools catch-up

Dave Lister on how penny pinching provoked the resignation of top government commissar

Tory handouts to royalty, rich elites, tax exiles. . .

Prem Sikka on the corporate winners in the pandemic

Covid mental health fallout

Steven Walker says action is needed to avert crisis amongst the poor and young

Women in firing line

Alice Arkwright says TUC research spotlights gender discrimination writ large in the pandemic