Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Is the coronavirus becoming ‘less deadly’?
In a rapidly changing situation for measuring, monitoring and intervention, can we ever compare the rate of the viral infection now with how it was in March? Ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
While it might be reassuring to believe that the coronavirus is becoming less deadly, any apparent decline in the number of infected dying is due to a change record keeping, not the death rate
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
OVER the course of the Covid-19 outbreak in Britain many people have been following the charts plotting confirmed cases and deaths over time. We look to these graphs to get a sense of what the outbreak is doing and how well we have it under control.
One thing some people have begun to question is an apparent discrepancy between the numbers of confirmed cases and the numbers of deaths that accompany them.
For example, between March 1 and the April 1 this year, the government Covid-19 dashboard reports that in Britain there were 139,065 confirmed cases and 24,046 deaths. In comparison, between the September 1 and October 1, there have been 134,538 confirmed cases but only 711 deaths.
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The NHS continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’ while the WHO emphasises airborne transmission, meaning vulnerable patients and healthcare workers face unnecessary risks, reports RUTH HUNT
