Latest editorial
FAILURES in mental healthcare is keeping black communities from achieving their full potential, a new coalition has warned.
The group, which includes the Black Minds Matter charity, Mind and the Centre for Mental Health as well as smaller grassroots organisations, called on political parties to commit in their manifestos to positively change a system that is failing members of black communities when they are at their most vulnerable.
Nisa Chisipochinyi, on behalf of the coalition, said: “There have been plenty of words and promises, but failure to take decisive steps such as reforming the Mental Health Act [last year] signal that the mental health of black people still isn’t a priority.
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY