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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  England's left must rebuild... outside the Labour party

  Published on: 16 April 2020

  Written by: Jonathon Shafi All articles by Jonathon Shafi

  The Labour machine stifles energy and staves momentum.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK

  Pandemic poverty: "I can't afford to live on £94 a week"

  Published on: 15 April 2020

  Written by: Adam Ramsay All articles by Adam Ramsay

  Four women in the UK explain how the British government's coronavirus support scheme has let them slip through the...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Investigation

  Exclusive: Controversy over key coronavirus role for Boris ‘cycling pal’ Andrew Gilligan

  Published on: 14 April 2020

  Written by: James Cusick All articles by James Cusick

  Ministers claim COVID-19 response is led by science and experts – so why is Gilligan calling up labs to negotiate...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Why are a third of UK COVID-19 patients ethnic minority?

  Published on: 11 April 2020

  Written by: Sunny Hundal All articles by Sunny Hundal

  People of colour are being hit disproportionately by this crisis. Why?

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Corbyn wasn't all bad

  Published on: 11 April 2020

  Written by: Neal Lawson All articles by Neal Lawson

  Labour has to learn from the successes as well as the failures of the past.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Investigation

  Exclusive: New evidence of child deaths linked to ‘stay at home’ COVID warnings

  Published on: 10 April 2020

  Written by: James Cusick All articles by James Cusick

  Medical incident logs leaked to openDemocracy show how children are becoming ‘collateral damage’ of the pandemic....

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Social security needs a massive boost to help people through this crisis

  Published on: 10 April 2020

  Written by: Frances O'Grady All articles by Frances O'Grady

  A million more thrown into the benefit system. 14 million in the UK already poverty before coronavirus struck. It’s...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Investigation

  Cleaners forced to work in empty Houses of Parliament

  Published on: 9 April 2020

  Written by: Caroline Molloy All articles by Caroline Molloy

  MPs slam Commons authorities, say outsourced low-paid workers are being put in ‘unnecessary danger’

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  Published in: openJustice: Opinion

  Disposable lives: how the plight of immigration detainees is highlighted during COVID-19

  Published on: 8 April 2020

  Written by: Rudy Schulkind All articles by Rudy Schulkind

  The UK government’s continued use of immigration detention lacks moral and legal justification. But it comes as no surprise.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  ‘Protect the NHS’ must not be another excuse to blame patients

  Published on: 6 April 2020

  Written by: Caroline Molloy All articles by Caroline Molloy

  Scaring people away from using Britain’s National Health Service is a dangerous and toxic message - and now it’s...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK

  From corporate carewashing to genuine care?

  Published on: 6 April 2020

  Written by: Lynne Segal All articles by Lynne Segal

  Written by: Andreas Chatzidakis All articles by Andreas Chatzidakis

  The coronavirus crisis forces us to reconsider the business of business.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Queen beckons Britain into Covid-nationalism trap

  Published on: 6 April 2020

  Written by: Adam Ramsay All articles by Adam Ramsay

  Elizabeth Windsor's speech about COVID-19 tried to spin our profound feelings about the pandemic into nationalist sentiment

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK

  UK coronavirus guidance could cause spike in child deaths, doctors warn

  Published on: 5 April 2020

  Written by: James Cusick All articles by James Cusick

  Experts demand change in public messaging, warning that confused parents are too scared to take sick kids to hospital or GPs.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  To grab this moment, the next Labour leader will need humility

  Published on: 4 April 2020

  Written by: Clive Lewis All articles by Clive Lewis

  Coronavirus changes everything.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Labour’s new leader must be a capacity builder

  Published on: 3 April 2020

  Written by: Neal Lawson All articles by Neal Lawson

  Britain’s Labour party has five potential futures...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  I’ll tell you what’s ramping up – my anger at the UK government’s disingenuous script

  Published on: 1 April 2020

  Written by: James Cusick All articles by James Cusick

  Ministers talk as if the COVID-19 outbreak is all going to plan. I love escapist fantasy too, but the facts suggest...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Labour must not abandon media reform

  Published on: 1 April 2020

  In an open letter to Labour leadership candidates, prominent figures in the party call for continued support for...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  Stop blaming ordinary people for the UK’s pandemic failures

  Published on: 28 March 2020

  Written by: Adam Ramsay All articles by Adam Ramsay

  Boris Johnson has presided over a public policy disaster. Now, he wants you to blame your neighbours. Don't.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  #Clapforcarers: why grassroots solidarity against Coronavirus matters

  Published on: 27 March 2020

  Written by: Paolo Gerbaudo All articles by Paolo Gerbaudo

  As people see that we all depend for our safety on the state and its health system, they realise that contra...

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

  We must undo a decade of disastrous NHS reforms

  Published on: 26 March 2020

  Written by: Ameen Kamlana All articles by Ameen Kamlana

  Covid-19 shows how our health service has been undermined