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How Costa Rica Nipped Coronavirus in the Bud
James Melville continues his comparisons of global best practice responses to the Pandemic with the first Latin America country to report a COVID-19 case.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Humans Are Not Herds’ – WHO Director Blasts ‘Brutal’ Idea of Human Herd Immunity to Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic
The comments of Dr Mike Ryan have again raised questions about the strategy the UK Government was pursuing in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country – when it still had a chance to contain its spread.
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Coronavirus Frontline Fatalities Pass 200 as Confusion Reigns over Revised Lockdown Plan
As the tragic milestone of 200 health and care worker COVID-10 deaths is passed, Mark Conrad reports on how doctors fear lockdown confusion could lead to further fatalities
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Grabbing the Future Back from Nationalists
How has Brexit impacted on the UK’s COVID-19 response and why is the UK’s future relationship with the European Union now more important than ever?
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Immunology Pioneer’s Legacy Threatened by Coronavirus Lockdown
While the Jenner Institute is at the centre of the search for a COVID-19 vaccine, David Hencke explains how a museum dedicated to Edward Jenner is threatened because of the lockdown.
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The Media Needs to Stop Pretending Elon Musk is a Wise Sage rather than a Grifter
CJ Werleman explores the Tesla CEO’s contribution to discussions around the Coronavirus crisis and why his need for personal recognition in such times is dangerous.
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Czech Authorities Allege Russia involved in Ricin Poisoning Plot
Kseniya Kirollova points out that, given Putin’s habit for assassination, security agencies have no choice but to take new terror threats seriously.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Forgotten Consequences of those in a ‘Double-Lockdown’
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly focused on hospitals and care homes – but hidden hotspots of the virus such as prisons should not be forgotten as we tackle the outbreak.
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The Year of Living Distantly: Lockdown Shadows of the Mind
Confined to a small urban apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bonnie Greer reflects on her time in the Actors Studio, and how shaming memory brings self-knowledge.
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Odeon of Death Film of the Month: Caws
The Odeon of Death takes a look at events through the medium of cinema
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A Year On from the Scandal of the European Elections, Democracy is Still in Danger
Maike Bohn, co-founder of the 3Million Campaign, explains how thousands were disenfranchised last year and their plan to take the Government to court over a dangerous precedent.
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Government Silent on Whether it Helped Train Chile’s Security Forces Amid Mounting Allegations of Abuse
As repression in Chile brings back memories of Pinochet, Steve Shaw reports on how the Conservative Government remains secretive about their support.
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WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: NHSX Contact Tracing App — Management Outsourced to Private Company and to be Accessed Overseas
David Hencke explores COVID-19 contracts worth £8m handed out by the UK Government for its controversial centralisation of personal data.
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After the Coronavirus Crisis – What is the Point of the Conservative Party?
Gareth Roberts makes his case that UK’s catastrophic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic should not be blamed on Boris Johnson’s Government alone – but on the entire Conservative Party
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The Year of Living Distantly: Songs For the End of Silence
With the end of the COVID-19 lockdown being bruited loudly in the press, Graeme Thomson the idea that ‘silence is perfection’ and where we can still find it in great music.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The ‘Little England’ App Can Be No Replacement for COVID-19 Testing
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, provides his regular update on the UK’s Government’s Coronavirus response and the need for real local testing and tracing.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Now is Exactly the Time for Global Comparisons
Paul Niland finds a pattern in the international responses to COVID-19, with populists who ignore the evidence having fared worst.
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Australia has Fewer Coronavirus Deaths than Devon
James Melville continues his comparison of international responses to COVID-19 and shows how just one British rural county has suffered more than a continent.
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WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: Vote Leave Firm Tied to Cambridge Analytica ‘Configured’ NHSX Contact Tracing App
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how concerns around privacy and trust in the UK Government’s centralised COVID-19 tracing system are matched by doubts about its effectiveness.
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The Rohingya, Uyghurs, Shiites, Ahmedis and the Homosexual: A Warning to British Muslims
Shahmir Sanni explains how the only way Muslims can defeat the far-right who demonise them is by joining forces with the LGTBQ community.
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Putin’s Pandemic Double Talk: How the Kremlin Betrays Russians at Home and Abroad
Kseniya Kirillova reports on how, from prison conditions to repatriating citizens, officials are a major threat to Russians during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Neil Ferguson: The Difference between Public Interest Journalism and a Politically Motivated Smear
With a public inquiry into their handling of the COVID-19 crisis looming, Brian Cathcart sees signs that the Government’s cheerleaders are helping to make scientists the scapegoats
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‘So Much Agony and Suffering’ – Eye Witness Accounts of US Somalia Drone Strikes
As the US makes a rare admission of killing Somali civilians, CJ Werleman gathers eye witness accounts of a drone strike that may well have killed hundreds.
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Government’s New Exit Test and ‘Immunity’ Passport Puts Public at Risk
Geraint Davies MP argues that the Government is still trying to ‘manage’ COVID-19 under ‘herd immunity’ rather than eliminating it as other countries have done.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: Government Economic Intervention is Neither Generous Nor Enough
Ben Lewis looks at the dire economic impact of COVID-19 and dismisses fears about an excessive Government fiscal and monetary stimulus.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: Government Suspends Key Protections for Children with Special Educational Needs
Stephen Unwin explains the personal impact of COVID-19 emergency ‘reasonable endeavours’ policy on his severely learning disabled son.
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VE DAY COMMEMORATION: Shots in the Dark – A Night in Umbria
As Britain prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe, Otto English cuts through the myths with his father’s first-hand account of war.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: Questions over PPE linger as UK frontline staff fatalities reach 171
Byline Times and Nursing Notes collaborate to record all the staff across the country who have lost their lives during the battle against COVID-19.
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Parliament’s Standards Committee Demands Apologies from Two Government Trade Ministers
As one minister resigns, David Hencke reports on a rare dual rebuke to two members of Boris Johnson’s Government.
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Three Russian Doctors Treating Coronavirus Patients Fall from Windows
@Life_Disrupted reports on two senior medical staff fatalities and one critically injured while complaints about Vladimir Putin’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis mount.
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Vietnam: Another Lesson in How to Deal with the Coronavirus Pandemic
James Melville continues his global tour of international responses to COVID-19 with some stark comparisons to the UK.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Brazilian President Dismisses COVID-19 as ‘Sniffles’ – But it Might Be Terminal For Him
Monica Piccinini reports on Jair Bolosnaro’s approach to COVID-19 and the likely impact on him and his people.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Keep Clean and Carry On
John Mitchinson explores how pandemics can have odd and unexpected consequences and ponders what the new ‘normal’ will be post-COVID-19
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Untimely’ and ‘Insensitive’ – NHS Consultants Slam COVID-19 Bonuses for Senior Staff
Mark Conrad reports on how a controversy around extra payments to consultants in England is putting pressure on Government ministers to extend to all NHS staff.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Officials Accuse Britain and US of ‘Hubris’ and ‘Complacent Exceptionalism’ in their Response to COVID-19
A former WHO director blames ideology, years of austerity and the downgrading of public health for the UK’s failures in dealing with the pandemic. The UK and US Governments have suffered from “hubris” in their response to COVID-19 and failed to get a grip on the deadly disease because they believed they were “untouchable”, according…
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Governed by Opinion? Governments and the Public Mood in a Crisis
Ian Sinclair looks at the role of Opinion Polls in shaping the Politics of the Pandemic and compares with the precedents of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Government Anticipated more than a Million COVID-19 Deaths but Refused to Take Action for Three Weeks
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how minutes from the NERVTAG estimated up to of 1,333,330 fatalities from the Coronavirus as far back as 21 February.
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Is it Safe? The Immuni App: Digital Surveillance during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Jacopo Iacoboni of La Stampa reports on how concerns about anonymisation, data sharing and procurement haunt Italy’s COVID19 tracking app.
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Science, Ideology and the Pandemic: A Way Out from the COVID-19 Crisis?
A new Byline Times event scrutinises the Government’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis and how the UK could still change course. Byline Times is pleased to present a new event featuring investigative journalists in discussion with top public health experts and social scientists. Why is the UK facing one of the highest Coronavirus death rates…
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UK Imposes Sanctions on Trump
David Hencke reveals that to abide with World Trade Organisation and EU rules, Britain is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on the US.
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Moscow Transforms Occupied Territories into Anti-Western Coalitions
Kseniya Kirillova on how Kremlin-controlled statelets in Ukrainian occupied territory are creating an international ‘anti-globalism’ alliance.
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Truth Must Rise: Church Silence over COVID-19
Reverend Joe Haward laments the lack of religious leadership in the UK during the pandemic, particularly in speaking truth to Nietzschean ideas of power.
