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Latest Posts

The pandemic shows we need to rethink what we mean by ‘national security’

Andrew Smith
20 May, 2020

Governments have had the wrong priorities for too long.

Pandemic response

Natalie Bennett: Government should warn public of danger of ‘false negatives’

Natalie Bennett
19 May, 2020

Tests aren’t always done right.

In Hong Kong, no health workers or care home residents have caught coronavirus

Joe Lo
19 May, 2020

Jeremy Hunt said the achievement was “striking”.

It’s not just the UK, most European governments have had a coronavirus polling boost

Joe Lo
19 May, 2020

Of 23 European governments, 16 have increased their support during the crisis.

Iain Duncan Smith: Burden of coronavirus payback will fall hardest on poorest

Joe Lo
19 May, 2020

He said the burden “will fall heaviest on those on low incomes”.

Priti Patel

Overseas NHS staff risk lives on frontline every day yet ‘absurd’ surcharge set to increase

Lucy Skoulding
18 May, 2020

The Immigration Health Surcharge is set to rise by over £200 for overseas NHS workers

Rishi Sunak

Six million workers fear they’ll lose their jobs within six months

Lucy Skoulding
18 May, 2020

Over half the workforce are three months or less away from defaulting on their rent or mortgage

House of Commons

Letter: Opposition parties unite against plans to shut down ‘virtual Parliament’

Lucy Skoulding
18 May, 2020

Opposition parties have united against Tory plans to shut down virtual participation

Food bank

The coronavirus recovery must be bottom-up, not top-down

Jamie Osborn
18 May, 2020

Jamie Osborn argues grassroots organising should lead the coronavirus recovery

The BBC and government are failing freelancers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 May, 2020

They’ve been dumped on the scrapheap.

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