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It’s not just our ministers who are rotten – our whole system of government, from local to national, is at fault.
Come the day of reckoning, who gets blamed? No one could call this week’s reopening of England’s local schools anything but a shambles. The prime minister has declared that all primary (...)
As infections soar and the NHS buckles, a Zero Covid strategy is the only answer, argues Phil Hearse.
The predicted Covid-19 catastrophe has occurred. In Britain and other countries where neoliberal governments have tried to prioritise keeping business open, the figures are disastrous. In (...)
Decisions about which patients receive life-saving treatment could be imminent, doctors warn.
Hospitals could soon face “horrendous choices” about which Covid-19 patients receive potentially life-saving treatment because the NHS is so dangerously overloaded, doctors fear.
The warning came as (...)
New UK-wide restrictions are now essential. At Independent Sage, we’ve come up with a five-point emergency plan.
The new variants of Covid-19 have changed the nature of the pandemic. We are no longer facing the same situation as in March or even November. Our response must change accordingly. (...)
VIRUSES reproduce abundantly, and with imperfect fidelity, so mutations are commonplace among them. Most such mutations, though, have little or no effect on how a virus spreads or how deadly it is. And, until recently, SARS-CoV-2, the covid-19 virus, has been no exception to that rule. (...)
Roy Wilkes reviews the continuing Tory pandemic chaos and puts the case for Zero Covid.
«Boris» Johnson’s announcement two days ago [19 December 2020] that his promise to allow households to mix over Christmas is now to be broken typifies the chaotic lurches in policy we have seen from the UK (...)
“These three crises (economic, ecological and political) are global in nature and have impacted countries in both the global north and south. In Britain, we also need to take into account the specific problem of Brexit – probably a no-deal one.”
The global world economy is currently in crisis as (...)
Covid-19 is not just out of control, it is rampaging across the world. Sensational headlines are focusing on Trump; hardly surprising given his attitude to the virus, writes Alan Thornett. The chilling reality behind these, however, is that we are entering a dangerous new stage of the pandemic (...)
Defenders of civil liberties are losing the debate in the face of rightwing demagogues
“Not all heroes wear masks.” So tweeted Tory contrarian Toby Young in July after fellow freedom warrior James Delingpole posted a selfie of himself maskless in a supermarket. How daring. How heroic.
The tweet (...)
As this is written, the Tory UK government is putting in place in England further local lockdowns and restrictions on gatherings, calling for people to work from home again if possible, and is apparently considering a two-week ‘circuit breaker’ national lockdown, writes Phil Hearse.
The rapidly (...)
Medical writer Richard Horton, well-known as editor-in-chief of journal The Lancet, has been highly critical of government responses to Covid-19, particularly that of the UK government. In his book The Covid-19 Catastrophe , reviewed here by medical doctor Stacey Williams, he tackles the (...)
Exclusive: Medical experts have warned of patient misery and pain if normal care is axed again.
The NHS will be inflicting pain, misery and risk of death on tens of thousands of patients if it again shuts down normal care when a second wave of Covid-19 hits, doctors’ and surgeons’ leaders are (...)
London—“There are plenty of things people will say we got wrong,” Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, said of the nation’s coronavirus response in a recent speech. In one of the world’s worst affected countries, much of the focus has been on government mismanagement. Johnson’s inexperienced (...)
At the regular Prime Minister’s questions (PMQs) two days ago (20 May) Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer asked the question that had already been raging on social media for some time. Why is the British Government making non-EU migrants working and dying in the front line in the National Health (...)
This government has a death pact with a market system that kills.
We should start with the deaths. Sometimes on the left we can be a bit cold and analytical but the only response at the moment is utter anger. Thousands and thousands are dying needlessly. Dying on ventilators, apart from their (...)
Several weeks ago, the British and international media reported that “Eastern European” workers are being flown into the UK, and other European countries such as Germany, to perform “vital” work such as picking fruit and vegetables on large industrial farms. This news, however, has fallen on deaf (...)
Health managers in England voice ‘intense frustration’ in unprecedented intervention.
Hospital leaders have directly attacked the government for the first time during the coronavirus crisis over the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) after a desperately needed consignment of (...)
One of the most astounding statistics to emerge from the escalating coronavirus pandemic is how the death rate from the virus in Germany is markedly lower than other countries. In UK, the Conservative government’s relentless austerity measures continue to come at the expense of the NHS. The (...)
The entire world and its political-economic system has been turned upside down by the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis.
Beliefs and ideologies preached as unchallenged gospel for decades are being exposed and ignored even by their most zealous adherents, such as the British Tories.
Tory Ideology (...)
UK government’s workforce bailout shows why the precariat needs to get organised
The UK government’s employment protection scheme is a partial victory for crisis economics over the logic of capitalism. Late and inadequate though it is, it should be enough to stop an immediate slump in demand. (...)
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