Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Operation Moonshot: aiming for the stars and missing
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL explain how ideology forces the government to dream big for Covid-19 while getting the basics wrong
Boris Johnson prefers to spend money in large sums on eye-catching projects, whether there is any evidence they are a good idea or not. This is the only way to make sense of projects like Operation Moonshot, reportedly costing a headline-worthy £100bn
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
COVID-19 has made the social determinants of health painfully obvious. Social geographers like Danny Dorling have pointed out that the map of the three-tier system of Covid-19-related restrictions looks uncannily like “a depiction of the north-south divide.”
The north is, on average, poorer than the south. People are more likely to have jobs where they cannot work from home, and to live near to their extended family who provide childcare. These, along with other factors, mean that Covid-19 can spread more easily.
Currently, the government recommends that those with Covid-19 symptoms should self-isolate for ten days. A minority of people are following this. One study, not yet peer-reviewed, found that fewer than one in five people reported that they had adhered to the full self-isolation period, despite around 70 per cent having the intention to.
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