Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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Tracking, tracing and adding up
Under the Tories' disastrous Covid-19 direction the Department for Health is desperate to show some good results — so desperate they're pushing bad maths. SOLOMON HUGHES does the sums
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
IF you won’t say what’s broken, you won’t be able to fix it. On that principle, the government is not going to get a better grip on the Covid-19 crisis.
Just before Matt Hancock announced his latest reorganisation of test-and-trace, his department put out a press release saying: “NHS Test and Trace service results in line with the recognised metric of success for contact-tracing services across the world.”
So the system to chase the virus is working well. The Department for Health liked this factlet so much they said it twice. The same press release added that the contact-tracing service “is reaching over 79 per cent of all those who test positive, and 83.4 per cent of their contacts where contact details were provided, which is in line with the recognised metric of success for contact-tracing services across the world.”
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