As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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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
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
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 One study, not yet peer-reviewed, found that fewer than one in five people reported that they had adhered to the full self-isolation period, despite around 70 per cent having the intention to.
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