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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Mass Testing is the Vaccine Until there is a Vaccine’ and Could Prevent 70% of Deaths’ say NHS Consultants
Stephen Colegrave reports on why two NHS doctors have written to Boris Johnson with their recommendation that only mass testing can now prevent a significant number of COVID-19 deaths in the UK.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Myanmar’s Lockdown on Truth
Tasnim Nazeer looks at the impact of Myanmar’s denial of COVID-19 on its own citizens and the rest of the world.
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Postcards from the Red Wall: A Town with Contradictions
Graham Williamson visits Doncaster, which voted to Leave the EU by 69% in 2016, and welcomed a Conservative MP to one of its constituencies in the 2019 General Election.
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The Year of Living Distantly: The Empty Hours
Chris Keulemans reflects on what living with the Coronavirus might teach us about the kind of life we really want.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Obnoxious Stupidity of Flag-Waving Patriotism
CJ Werleman argues that those flocking to beaches at the weekend and flouting social distancing measures to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak cannot be called patriotic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Government to Introduce ‘Most Draconian Peacetime Powers Ever’
Steve Shaw reports on the Coronavirus Bill, which introduces new emergency powers to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: How to Survive and Support Your Neighbours – Careless Mixing Costs Lives
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, explains how we can all help save lives in his first column as Byline Times’ Chief Medical Officer.
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Help, I’m a Teenager, Get Me Out of Here
Sofia Overton sets out how Generation Z is in a near constant state of anxiety as existential crisis after existential crisis seems to unfold.
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The Trial of Alex Salmond: ‘Marmite Man’ Inappropriate But Not Criminal, Jury Told
James Doleman reports from the trial of the former Scottish First Minister, who stands accused of sexual assault and attempted rape.
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Can Rishi Sunak’s Budget Satisfy the New Red Wall Conservatives?
Mike Buckley provides an analysis of why he believes the Government’s first budget – and the pressures of the Coronavirus outbreak – will be unable to satisfy its new Red Wall Conservative voters.
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The Year of Living Distantly: A Letter to My Mum
Otto English pens some thoughts to his 89-year-old mother, who he visited this week in the Coronavirus chaos.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Enter the Far-Right
Will sowing division and hate by blaming the Coronavirus pandemic on Chinese and Asian people be part of Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election strategy?
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The Trial of Alex Salmond: Former Scottish First Minister A ‘Sexual Predator’
James Doleman continues his reporting from Edinburgh High Court, where the politician is on trial for charges of sexual assault and rape.
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Life on the COVID-19 Frontline: NHS Staff Urge Government to Protect Hospital Capacity
While Britain struggles to tackle a rising tide of Coronavirus infections, Mark Conrad reports from an NHS frontline in need of timely guidance – and resources.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Cloud of Unknowing and the Veil of Ignorance
Hardeep Matharu explores how the uncertainty around the Covid-19 pandemic has reanimated forgotten philosophies of social justice and mutual aid.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Crisis of Incompetence
Paul Niland explores how the global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the weakness of populist politics and unprincipled power.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Jury is Out on Jury Trials – For Now
James Chalmers reports on the problems facing the courts in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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You Cannot Sing ‘Rule Britannia’ to a Virus
Musa Okwonga on why the British notion of exceptionalism can be seen in the country’s handling of the Coronavirus outbreak and why it should just admit that it’s not really that rebellious – despite the myths it tells itself.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Hospitality Industry Pushed Towards Catastrophe
Stephen Delahunty reports on why the Chancellor’s £330 billion rescue package for businesses won’t be enough to stop the hospitality industry from going under due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: NHS Doctors and Nurses Demand ‘Test Our Staff Now’
Mark Conrad reports on how, despite pressure on the Health Secretary Matt Hancock to routinely test NHS staff to suppress the Coronavirus, no plans are forthcoming.
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The Trial of Alex Salmond: ‘There were Hugs and Kisses for Everyone’
James Doleman reports from the trial of the former First Minister of Scotland, who is charged with sexual assault and attempted rape.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Is £330 Billion Going to Get to the Right People?
Stephen Colegrave investigates whether the new UK Government support package is going to help the working population or just prop up big business.
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Stalinist and Reductionist: How the UK Government Created the Worst-Case Scenario
John Ashton, the former senior public health director who first questioned the UK Government’s response to COVID-19 on the BBC, finds a ray of hope.
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Herd Immunity – Timeline of a Climb-Down
Stefan Simanowitz recounts how counterclaim and backlash over a flawed Government policy wasted precious days in the UK’s fight against the Coronavirus.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘It’s a Shame it’s Taken Something Like this For Us to Start Acting in this Way’
Mutual aid groups are popping up all over Britain, helping those stuck in self-isolation. Through their example, we can also learn to combat decades-old injustices writes Nick McAlpin.
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The Herd Instinct and ‘Herd Immunity’: The Etiology of a Bad Idea
The science didn’t change – the politics did. Peter Jukes follows an inflammatory and disastrous theory as it spread rapidly through the British body politic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Mistake Over ‘Herd Immunity’ Has Cost Us Vital Time
Mike Buckley sets out the Government’s strategy towards the COVID-19 outbreak so far and explores why its handling of it already raises much bigger questions about the country’s governance – concerns which have been there all along.
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The Trial of Alex Salmond: ‘I’ve Never Attempted Non-Consensual Sexual Relations in My Life’
James Doleman reports from Edinburgh’s High Court, where the former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is giving evidence in his defence to charges of sexual assault and attempted rape.
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A Good Day to Bury Bad News: US Justice Department Drops Charges over Russia’s 2016 Election Interference
Caroline Orr reports on how charges against indicted Putin Ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were abandoned just as the coronavirus pandemic in the US set a deadly new record.
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Battle Against the Unknown
Army veteran Steve Jones reports from the hidden frontline in Stoke on the battle against the COVID-19 outbreak, now raging in shops, homes and hospitals.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: We Need to Bail Out the British Public
Stephen Colegrave considers those who are vulnerable to the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak and how important it is for the Government to support them.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Raising Hell – The Long Afterlife of William Blake
John Mitchinson explores the lasting resonance of the works of the English poet and artist who attracted little acclaim during his lifetime.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Journalists Should Not Pick Sides
Brian Cathcart on why reporting that helps people form a balanced understanding of the Coronavirus outbreak so that they can make up their own minds in an informed way is absolutely vital.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Debt and No Savings Will Leave Millions Vulnerable
The COVID-19 outbreak is causing significant concern for the global economy and individual households.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Danger of America Being a ‘Me’ Country Not a ‘We’ Country
CJ Werleman explains why a national philosophy of selfishness and a President who willingly spreads disinformation is such as a threat to America as it tackles the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Turkish Delight? Putin and Erdogan’s Complicated Relationship
After the Turkish and Russian Presidents met in Moscow to discuss the situation in Idlib, Stephen Komarnyckyj looks at the current relationship between the two countries.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: We Are Right to be Concerned About the Government’s Response
Mike Buckley explains how Boris Johnson’s administration has one of the laxest responses to the pandemic compared to other countries and believes it is unnecessarily putting lives at risk.
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It’s Finally Time for Michael Gove to Come Clean Over Referendum Wrongdoing
A former MP and member of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee – which investigated disinformation and fake news during the 2016 EU Referendum – calls on the Cabinet Office Minister to reveal what he knew about electoral wrongdoing.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Why Might the UK Government Care More about Markets than Deaths?
As a former consultant to the Department of Health, Stephen Colegrave explains how premature deaths are under-recorded and demands full transparency over government scientific advice.
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‘I Got More Justice from Mugabe than I Ever Got from Britain’
Jon Robins explores the case of Clive Freeman, who was jailed in 1989 for murder but has always protested his innocence and is now mounting a fourth attempt for his guilty verdict to be reconsidered.
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The Trial of Alex Salmond: Politician was ‘Touchy-Feely’ Person, Says Defence Team
James Doleman reports from the trial of the former First Minister of Scotland, who is charged with sexual assault and attempted rape.
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The Trial of Alex Salmond: ‘He was my Boss and he Happened to be the Most Powerful Person in the Country’
James Doleman’s third report from the trial of the former First Minister of Scotland, who is charged with sexual assault and attempted rape.
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GET COVID DONE
Otto English explores why Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’ supposed strategy of tackling the Coronavirus through the UK population developing ‘herd immunity’ is so dangerous to us all.
