As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Latest editorial
Matt Hancock’s missing hundreds
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care claimed the government's centralised, privatised scheme for 'test and trace' was delivering 'over 100 local actions' each week — but nine weeks after a freedom-of-information request from SOLOMON HUGHES, they have refused to name a single one
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
ACCORDING to Matt Hancock, there are over 100 successful anti-coronavirus measures a week — but they are all secret and cannot be discussed in public.
Hancock made his claims in an article he wrote for the Telegraph on July 12, under a headline promising “Test and trace” will “keep Covid cornered.”
Hancock argued that thanks to “success in slowing the spread of this virus” we could have a “careful restoration of our national life” and so “lift more of the lockdown and take targeted action.”
Similar stories
Born from my communist social worker mother’s efforts to bridge healthcare gaps, Labour’s push for home-based care now risks becoming another avenue for the US corporate takeover of the NHS, writes RICHARD CLARKE
Behind Starmer’s headline-grabbing abolition of NHS England lies a ruthless drive to centralise control so that cuts of £6.6 billion can be made — even if it means reducing cancer services and clinical staff, writes JOHN LISTER
The NHS continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’ while the WHO emphasises airborne transmission, meaning vulnerable patients and healthcare workers face unnecessary risks, reports RUTH HUNT
