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Matt Hancock’s missing hundreds
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care claimed the government's centralised, privatised scheme for 'test and trace' was delivering 'over 100 local actions' each week — but nine weeks after a freedom-of-information request from SOLOMON HUGHES, they have refused to name a single one
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
ACCORDING to Matt Hancock, there are over 100 successful anti-coronavirus measures a week — but they are all secret and cannot be discussed in public.
Hancock made his claims in an article he wrote for the Telegraph on July 12, under a headline promising “Test and trace” will “keep Covid cornered.”
Hancock argued that thanks to “success in slowing the spread of this virus” we could have a “careful restoration of our national life” and so “lift more of the lockdown and take targeted action.”
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