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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionConservative governments have undermined health and safety for decades
The party has pushed anti-health and safety narratives and watered down regulations, leaving us unprepared for a pandemic.
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Published in: HomeWe need urgent answers about the massive NHS COVID data deal
Why is the UK government refusing to release details of its ‘unprecedented’ data transfer to US tech giants? If we...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion"There's rules that apply to them, and there's rules that apply to you"
The Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in the UK has been hit hard by the crisis. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?COVID-19 and the bankruptcy of neoliberalism in the context of Global Shift
The coronavirus crisis could be the “opportunity of the century” for China to cement its place as the world’s global...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThe COVID-19 domestic violence crisis in the UK is a decade in the making
Domestic violence under coronavirus is a hot topic, but we mustn't forget how we got here. Politicians ripped our...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIt’s time to hold big banks to account for their dirty lending
As climate change threatens entire ecosystems, bankers are continuing to put profit before people.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion“A disaster waiting to happen” - Traveller communities buckling from the impact of the pandemic
The UK's Gypsy and Traveller communities are being devastated by the pandemic.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Applause as a form of social distancing
The applause is not about them, it is about us after all. In this, is it any different from the patriotic songs on...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPeople in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system
Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities.
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Published in: openEconomy: OpinionDon’t buy the lockdown lie – this is a government of business as usual
In England there is no new legislation to protect workers' safety, and remarkably little to enforce workplace...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Thousands at risk from COVID-19 in ‘dangerous’ UK call centres
Labour and Lib Dems urge government to stop firms playing ‘Russian roulette’ with workers’ lives – as ‘harrowing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionPride: why the UK spent billions on nuclear bombs but ignored pandemic threat
A viral outbreak was judged more likely than a nuclear attack – so why was Trident ring-fenced while NHS funding was cut?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government preparing to fight costly negligence claims over NHS staff deaths
Revealed: Hancock’s £60,000 scheme for bereaved families will accept ‘no liability’ for deaths – as lawyers warn...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe War on Drugs has failed. But a profit-driven legal market is not the answer
With big business eyeing up cannabis as a future market, it is essential that legalisation supports racial and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No alternative to sustainable agriculture: how community-supported farms show the way to food security in an uncertain world
“It's easy for many people to run with the idea that we don't need neighbours. The cynicism in some people is the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe corona crisis has made us value migrants: here’s how to build on that
Most people want to offer British citizenship to frontline migrant workers. It’s a sign that fairness is what they...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKExclusive: Most support UK citizenship for migrant frontline workers
Most people in Great Britain think migrants working as healthcare and care workers, supermarket, farm and delivery...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Warnings of UK’s ‘inferior’ COVID-19 tests made two months ago
Matt Hancock under pressure to explain why the UK is still using tests that may ‘propagate’ the epidemic.
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Published in: HomeEvidence grows that politicians missed many chances to protect us from COVID-19
US intelligence warned of the new disease last November. The British government failed to follow its own advice. The...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe coming tsunami and how we prepare for it
Governments around the world must urgently invest to become more resilient to shocks, because more disasters are coming.