Tag: coronavirus
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
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
A socialist recovery from Covid-stricken capitalism?
Bryn Jones considers partial prescriptions for human survival
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
Generation Covid
Tom Laing says government failures on schools and universities could blight a generation
Progressive politics beyond the pandemic
Robin Hambleton suggests that Covid-19 is opening up new political possibilities
Coronavirus vs Brexit
The Government is using the pandemic as a smokescreen to obscure the damaging economic consequences of leaving the single market. Paul Teasdale asks why is Labour letting them?
Britain’s post-Covid settlement?
Bryn Jones says Sunak’s cunning plans - and Labour’s timid alternative - are no 1945 moment