The labour movement divides in its response to easing of restrictions
The Prime Minister has confirmed that pubs, cafes, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, museums, hairdressers and places of worship will…
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Labour calls for transparency as coronavirus restrictions ease further
Many of us assumed that the coronavirus ‘lockdown’ here, always a relatively light touch one, would be lifted…
The government departments creating a hostile environment with a culture of disbelief
It is National Windrush Day, marking the 72nd anniversary of the first big post-war migrants group arriving in…
Come together, right now: a review
The government has officially given up on its coronavirus tracing app in yet another embarrassing U-turn that anyone…
Boris Johnson’s “world-beating” projects
Since 2015, the UK has been legally committed to spending 0.7% of gross national income on official development…
Pitch perfect
It didn’t take long for that entirely predictable U-turn on free school meals during the summer holidays to take place.…
PM resists calls to extend free school meals despite mounting pressure
Labour launched a ‘Holidays Without Hunger’ campaign over the weekend, with a petition demanding that the government continues funding free…
Pro patria mori
It was the three year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire on Sunday. Labour marked it by issuing…
The risks of record-breaking coronavirus GDP figures
The Office for National Statistics revealed this morning that GDP fell by 20.4% in April, which is the…
Had the UK locked down one week earlier…
Had we introduced coronavirus lockdown measures one week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by…
