Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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If coronavirus is a war Britain and America are losing
The 'winners' so far are some of the losers of WW2 — Germany and Japan — and the industrialised nations of East Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and socialist China. If the West ever recovers, it will be changed forever, writes JOE GILL
Las Vegas councilman Cedric Crear gives a media tour of the coronavirus isolation and quarantine complex for the homeless, hastily built in a car park
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
THE battle to contain coronavirus is a war. The metaphor may be crude and a virus not a foreign army, but it does strike people down in the random ways that bombs do, even if buildings are all still standing. And as in real wars, it is the working class and minorities who face the brunt of danger and death.
Wars are brutal tests of societies and governments — historically they have marked the end of one era and the beginning of another, especially the great wars that defined the last century.
Coronavirus is a world pandemic and it has the quality of a total war too — all of economic and social life is affected and reorganised around fighting it.
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