ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Could Covid-19 bring an end to the privatisation of our NHS?
The hated Health and Social Care Act has effectively been suspended, and there’s huge recognition that support staff should be brought back in-house. So can the ‘competitive health market’ now be ditched once and for all? asks JOHN LISTER
Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
BORIS JOHNSON’S five-minute broadcast on leaving hospital, in which he enthused about the NHS as the “beating heart of the nation” and named two overseas nurses who he believed had saved his life, might have been a pivotal moment.
It might yet prove to be the moment where the right-wing Cabinet of a Tory government was persuaded to pull back from the process of running down the NHS.
Indeed the entire coronavirus pandemic and resultant crisis facing every major country in the world has been a wake-up call for ministers, who have been forced to put their previous financial model and restructuring of the NHS on the back burner — or conceivably discard previous ambitions altogether.
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When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN