By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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We must get through this winter together - or many will not get through it at all
Unison assistant general secretary ROGER McKENZIE says a fundamental change of approach is needed to tackle this health crisis
Public service workers have amassed a huge body of experience, and undergone huge risks to their lives during the pandemic — ow that winter is here, it is time for them to be listened to.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
IN WUHAN, devastated by the coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of this year, nightclubs are open again. We are having to enter a partial second lockdown next week because of politics as much as epidemiology.
At the beginning of the outbreak Boris Johnson boasted about being able to profit by being more careless than other countries. The government locked down too late, and when it did, it inherited a health service shredded by cuts and privatisation. Rather than rapidly raising state capacity, it adopted the same strategy that has failed on every major public project from universal credit to railways – huge bungs for profiteers with a record of failure but close links to the Conservative Party.
Our test and trace system is now being operated by teenagers on the minimum wage in roles intended for experienced clinicians at the level of paramedics or assistant psychologists.
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