Opinion: Coronavirus: Make Private Hospitals Public Now
In this moment of crisis, we have a choice: either protect private profits, or save lives, writes Callum Cant.
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Opinion: People With Mental Health Problems Should Be Able to Talk About Politics, Not Just Their Conditions
People with mental ill health are encouraged to talk about their conditions, but they are often discouraged from addressing the political agenda that has both increased mental illness and left sufferers without recourse to services, writes journalist and advocate Harriet Williamson.
Opinion: The Government’s Inadequate Response to Flooding Is Further Proof It ‘just doesn’t get’ Climate Change
Storm Dennis and Storm Ciara are just the latest in a string of increasingly severe weather events that have devastated entire regions, caused mass travel disruption, and confirmed that the UK government has no coherent or credible plan for the challenges our changing climate will inevitably bring, writes Hannah Martin.
Tory Candidate Faces Questions Over App That Charged Food Banks Hundreds of Pounds
A Conservative party candidate is facing questions over whether she sought to profit from Britain’s hunger crisis with an app that charged food banks hundreds of pounds to promote lists of items they need from donors.
GE2019: I Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence. Here’s Why I Can’t Vote for the Tories
Ammaarah Zayna explains why the Tories' policies amount to shutting doors in the faces of some of the most vulnerable women in our society.
GE2019: Austerity Was an Attack on Our Self-Esteem. We Deserve Better – Let’s Not Talk Ourselves Out of It
Austerity has instilled in us the belief that good things are not possible, and we wouldn't deserve them even if they were. Phil Jones argues we should resist the idea that a better future is too good to be true.
Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔
The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?
GE2019: The Conservatives Have Blown It
In this election the Tories had a chance to reach out to the Labour heartlands with an offer to deliver on both Brexit and the economy. Instead, they've produced a thin, watery document whose content will not stand up to scrutiny, argues James Meadway.
GE2019: Are Anti-Corbyn Groups Buying up Facebook Ads on Behalf of the Conservative Party?
The Conservative party’s Facebook advertising strategy has been looking a little strange recently, with their spending in the past week eclipsed by the Liberal Democrats, the Labour party and anti-Brexit group Best for Britain. This is despite the Conservatives having spent far more on Facebook ads in past elections than any other party – £2.1m […]
The One Thing I Never Get Asked to Talk About….
The media don’t seem to care about Tory Islamophobia. Why? Because they’re up to their necks in it themselves.
GE2019: Myth-Busting the Student Vote: Will a December Election Mean Poor Turnout? Will This Affect Labour?
In theory, a polling day after the end of university term time could suppress the student vote, disadvantaging Corbyn. But now the campaign is underway, it looks like young people intend to turn out in force, with a record number having registered to vote. But polling suggests this might not be an automatic gain for Labour. Student Oliver Haynes reports.
GE2019: Asymmetric Advertising Is the New Fake News, and the Tories May Be Using It to Hijack Your Social Media
Social media could win this election and the Tories know they are at a disadvantage, with users skewing young and leftwing. Researcher Stuart Mills thinks the Conservatives may have come up with a hack: using deliberately bad or contentious content to try and bait us into sharing their posts.
GE2019: Green Tories? Don’t Believe the Hype
Boris Johnson claims his party is taking action on climate change. He's lying, argues Adrienne Buller; any decrease in fossil fuel emissions in the last decade has happened in spite of Tory policies, not because of them.
GE2019: From Cancelled Operations to Staff Shortages, the Writing Is on the Wall for the NHS Under the Tories
New data reveals that in the last year a staggering 78,981 operations were cancelled in the NHS - the most common reasons being staff shortages and equipment failures. A junior doctor explains how things got so bad under the Tories.
GE2019: ‘Within Our Grasp’: What Labour Is Up Against and What It Will Take to Win
In his leadership campaign Johnson promised the Tories two things: Brexit by 31 October, and smashing Corbyn's Labour party. Labour's campaign has got off to a flying start, but there is precisely no room for complacency, argues James Meadway.
GE2019: This Election Is Where We Decide the Planet’s Future
With vast swathes of the planet quite literally on fire, 71% of Britons agree climate crisis is a more pressing issue than Brexit, writes Eleanor Penny.
But while Labour is offering a potentially transformative Green New Deal, the Tories have an actual fracking lobbyist writing their manifesto.
How the Long, Slow Death of Neoliberalism Sent the Conservative Party Into Crisis
Long read: In a matter of weeks the Tories have lost their flimsy grip on parliament, a historic six votes, any remaining confidence of EU negotiators and the plot entirely. But while it's difficult to look beyond Boris, Eleanor Penny argues the problem has far deeper roots.
Fuck Business, Fuck the Law, Fuck Parliament: The Descent of British Conservatism
With the government's decision to suspend parliament ruled unlawful, we are now confronted with a crisis so deep that Britain's establishment party is discrediting the order it has historically sought to uphold, argues Aaron Bastani.