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Opinion: Coronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the Economy

This crisis will require more than money to resolve; it will require the restructuring of our economy. This will be done either to the benefit of people and the planet, or it will not be, writes James Meadway.

Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk

In part two of a series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E, Dr J asks how the language of 'difficult choices' and 'tough decisions' undercuts the key principles of a universal NHS while distracting us from the political decisions underlying the crisis.

Cold Comfort: A&E Fills With Those Left in the Cold

In part one of a new series covering the NHS 'winter pressures' from within A&E, Dr J reflects on the relationship between housing and health, and what it means for rough sleepers and the hidden homeless.

Mental Health & Masculinity

Aaron Bastani talks mental health, masculinity and shares his own experience with depression.

Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS

The Byron raids highlighted the extent to which companies are complicit in immigration enforcement, but the government's pursuit of a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants is asking NHS workers to police patients.

We Need To Talk About How Mental Health is Political

Shon Faye looks at the politics of mental illness. The biases of how it's defined, who gets diagnosed and how people affected can resist discrimination and cuts to vital services.

Beyond TTIP: The Murky Pro-Corporate Trade Agenda is Bad For Our Health

Although the EU referendum brought TTIP out into the light, Brexit won't stop the threat posed to public services by the pro-corporate trade agenda

How to Open up a Second Front in the Battle for the NHS

Today's all-out junior doctors' strike marked a step up in the fight for the NHS: not only was it the first healthcare strike where emergency cover was left to consultants, but supporters also targeted those who stand to gain from the privatisation of the NHS.

Can the Junior Doctors’ strike save the NHS?

This week Michael Walker is joined by Aislinn Macklin-Doherty, Youssef El-Gingihy, Ellie-Mae O’Hagan and Paul McCrone to discuss the ongoing junior doctors' dispute and whether junior doctors can save our NHS from privatisation.

Jeremy Hunt: Aristocrat, Liar, Secretary of State for Nepotism and Privatisation

In this bumper ‪#‎IMOBastani‬ Aaron explains why the secretary's plans ARE in fact a form of privatisation, and delves a little into Hunt's family history uncovering a web of greed and nepotism.

“I would call it state violence” – Luqman Onikosi on receiving a deportation death sentence

Luqman Onikosi was diagnosed with chronic liver illness while studying in the UK. Now the Home Office wants to deport him, despite medical facilities in Nigeria being inadequate to save his life. Aaron Bastani speaks to Luqman about facing deportation and the British state's treatment of non-EU citizens.

Does this humiliation have no end? Stop sending people like me to our deaths.

Luqman Onikosi was diagnosed with chronic liver illness while studying in the UK. Now the Home Office wants to deport him, despite medical facilities in Nigeria being inadequate to save his life. Here he reflects how the system is failing migrants with medical conditions.

Not Fair, Not Safe: 6 Reasons Junior Doctors Are Preparing to Strike

Junior doctors are up in arms about the latest offensive from the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. From safety to pay to parental leave, Hunt has sought to impose harsh conditions and could now face the first strike by doctors in 40 years.

7 Reflections on the Cancer Drugs Fund and Big Pharma

Vital drugs are being removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund, exposing the relationship between government, Big Pharma and the NHS in the provision of medication.

Big Pharma: 8 Reasons We Need to Talk About the Pharmaceutical Industry

It's commonly said that the railways, NHS and post should be in public hands. Perhaps strangely, it would be less common to hear the same about the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry which is currently running circles around us.