Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrive for a press briefing about the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, inside 10 Downing Street
BORIS JOHNSON has nowhere to hide now that Britain’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed Italy’s — making us the worst-hit country in Europe and the second in the world.
The Prime Minister’s blasé assurance in March that we were “extremely well prepared” to handle the pandemic cannot be excused.
We were extremely unprepared for such an outbreak.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP