Tag: coronavirus
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
Tories waste billions of taxpayers’ money
Prem Sikka says the cronyism evident in numerous Covid-related contracts awarded by the Tories is nothing new to British capitalism
Rural reflections
Paul Salveson on pandemic peregrinations
Schooling in a time of Covid
Dave Lister on a litany of broken promises, planning failures and continuing safety anxieties
Save Nature, Save Humanity!
Tim Root sees Joe Biden’s election as a chance to boost international efforts to tackle deforestation
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
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the spirit
Trevor Fisher says beware dreamers and false hopes for the future
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