HISTORY Profit before people: how pandemic restrictions ended in the 19th century Unsurprisingly, the Tories’ reluctance to effectively fight Covid follows the same logic as the Victorian government during the cholera epidemics of the 1830s, writes KEITH FLETT
Friday 21st Jan 2022 Crisis for Johnson not necessarily a crisis for the Tory Party DIANE ABBOTT MP warns that if the current PM is replaced, the next leader will most likely have an even worse stance on effective Covid suppression as right-wing anti-lockdown factions now rule the Conservative roost
Friday 21st Jan 2022 The curious incident of the missing article of the Russian treaty IAN SINCLAIR says it is no surprise that the media has not accurately reported the fact that Russia proposed a treaty of mutual nuclear de-escalation last year — the aggressive nature of Britain’s bomb is always kept secret from the public
Friday 21st Jan 2022 Tory profiteering from human misery SOLOMON HUGHES looks in detail at the government’s pet privatisation contractor, the Mitie Group
Friday 21st Jan 2022 Labour’s Covid plan not quite the silver bullet JOAN TWELVES believes far more needs to be done to keep the virus at bay, NHS staff safe and the population protected
Friday 21st Jan 2022 FROSTY’S RAMBLINGS Flapper skates and highland dancers Despite climate change and pollution, it was a bumper year for returning wildlife in and around Britain's seas — PETER FROST gets his feet wet in this review of Britain’s marine scene
Thursday 20th Jan 2022 Attacks on the BBC are an act of cultural vandalism This government is intent on hobbling a great British institution for its own short-term political gain, says NUJ leader MICHELLE STANISTREET
Friday 21st Jan 2022 No method in Tory land management madness HUGH KIRKBRIDE explains why supposed support for sustainable farming and environmental revival is not what it seems
Friday 21st Jan 2022 The central flaws of universal basic income STEWART McGILL argues that to there is no version of this fashionable modern take on welfare payments that will work, with it either costing far too much in tax or delivering far loo little for recipients
Wednesday 19th Jan 2022 Saving lives at sea is not a crime Nautilus International leader MARK DICKINSON explains how pressure from his union prevented seafarers being criminalised under the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill for assisting those in danger at sea
Wednesday 19th Jan 2022 My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming... what? When Pluto was demoted from full planet status there was uproar — but as Engels warned us, science is a process where definitions change, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
