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Modern Slavery is Never Out of Fashion: Child Labour in the Clothing Industry
As part of his regular series on modern slavery, James Melville looks at how many of the garments we wear rest on a supply chain of child exploitation and misery
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From Bean to Brew — The Hidden Cost of Coffee Slavery
In a further report in his series on Modern Slavery, James Melville looks at the exploitation behind the coffee industry
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From Stone to Phone: Modern Day Cobalt Slavery in Congo
James Melville explains why slavery isn’t just a historic issue of statues and how your mobile phone contributes to the modern enslavement of 40 million people
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Coronavirus Crisis: As Ireland Reopens, the UK Faces a Summer of Discontent
James Melville reports on how foresight helped Ireland fight COVID-19, while Boris Johnson’s Government wallow in hindsight and blame
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Donald Trump: Make America Hate Again
James Melville explains why the US President was always destined to burn bridges rather than build them, and how he fans the flames of racism
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The Conservative Government is Protecting Dominic Cummings More than they have Protected our Care Homes
James Melville argues that the Dominic Cummings Scandal has become Boris Johnson’s ‘Black Wednesday’ moment when authority drains away even from his core support
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SWEDEN: The Other ‘Herd Immunity’ Country Vying for the Highest Coronavirus Per Capita Death Rate in the World
As Britain and Sweden compete in COVID-19 fatalities, James Melville considers the catastrophic failures of the Scandinavian country compared to its neighbours
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Populism and the Pandemic: Argentina Responded to COVID-19 while Brazil Ignored
James Melville continues his international analysis of Coronavirus responses with the stark contrast between two South American neighbours
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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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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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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: the Portuguese Pandemic Miracle
James Melville continues his series comparing international responses to COVID-19 and the example of Portugal shines out despite an ageing population and a frail health service.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Denmark’s Gold Standard Response
James Melville reports on Denmark’s effective response to COVID-19 — mass testing, an early lockdown, and no bailouts for companies in tax havens.
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Greece Teaches the UK a Lesson on How to Respond to the Coronavirus Crisis
James Melville reports on how Greece, by adopting foresight rather than hindsight, has a fraction of COVID-19 deaths per capita compared to Britain
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Germany – Another Country Whose Approach puts the UK to Shame
James Melville contrasts and compares Britain to the fast testing and community outreach approach of its European neighbours.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Hit it Hard. Hit it Early. New Zealand‘s Response to COVID-19 Puts the UK Government to Shame
James Melville on the fast response of Jacinda Ardern’s Administration which puts the UK Government to Shame
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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 Government Must Bolster its Response
With existing pressures on the NHS, will the health service be able to cope with increased cases of the highly contagious virus?
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Boris Johnson’s Rhetoric Can’t Produce the Extra Nurses the NHS Desperately Needs
A new report by the National Audit Office reveals there were 43,000 vacancies for nurses at the end of last September. What is the Prime Minister’s plan to fill these and how will his new points-based immigration system help?
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Scottish Independence is Driven by Internationalism Rather than Nationalism
James Melville explains why it might be time for the Scottish National Party to change its name.
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Brexit is Costing the UK More than All its Payments to the EU Put Together
James Melville on how the £200 billion cost of four years lost growth equals the entire UK contribution to the EU budget since it joined.
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Poverty in the UK is a Government-Created Crisis
If the success of a government is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable in society, our decade-long Conservative Government has utterly failed, argues James Melville.
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The Great British Immigration Myth
With the Government’s announcement of a new points-based immigration system, James Melville considers how people’s fears of those entering the country have been fuelled by political decision-making.
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Like the NHS, the BBC is a National Treasure – We lose It At Our Peril
James Melville on why we must be careful what we wish for when it comes to making sweeping changes to the under-attack BBC.
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Sajid Javid Resigns and Boris Johnson’s Brexit Bus still Teeters on the Cliff-Edge
James Melville sees that two months into ‘getting Brexit done’, the Government reshuffling of deckchairs does little to change our precarious situation.
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The Doubling of the National Debt: The Conservatives Have ‘Spent All the Money’
James Melville on another big myth in UK politics – that the Labour Party cannot be trusted on the economy.
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The ‘Oven-Ready’ Solution to Free Trade with the EU: EEA/EFTA Membership
James Melville explains the sensible way to square the circle of free trade with Europe and heal the divisions in Britain.
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Britain Enters the Next Phase of Project Blame
James Melville on how Boris Johnson’s ‘Northern Strategy’ continues a 30-year-long deflection game designed to get us to vote against our best interests.
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The Fake Superiority and Inferiority Complex of Brexit
As Britain leaves the EU on 31 January 2020, James Melville argues that a deep sense of unease with its identity in the world has led to a flawed solution: Brexit.
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Federalism Can “Take Back Control” in a Way Brexit Can’t
Could Labour leadership candidate Keir Starmer’s idea of creating a more federal United Kingdom be the only real solution to holding the Union together?
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The Weaponising of ‘Woke’
James Melville argues that ‘wokeness’ is the latest concept to be hijacked by the right-wing to make a stand against equality, democracy and justice.
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The Lost Art of Seriousness in Politics
James Melville reflects on how the post-truth rise of politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson has been made possible.
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The Real Project Fear: Fake News and ‘Johnny Foreigner’
James Melville highlights the paradox of our xenophobic media driven by press proprietors who are non-domiciled for tax reasons or based overseas.
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Rediscovering Northern Soul: The Territorial Injustice of Austerity
James Melville explores how Boris Johnson can respond to a protest vote against the territorial injustice of austerity.
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Progressive Scots Don’t Want to LEAVE BRITAIN Britain has Left Them
James Melville explains why the Brexit vote and now a Johnson victory has propelled him away from the Union to Scottish Independence.
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Brexitannia: The British Identity Crisis
Brexit has become an identity conflict in Britain. It is Danny Boyle’s London Olympics Opening Ceremony versus the Last Night of the Proms. Where do we go from here?
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The Perplexing Predictable Attraction of the Lies, Damn Lies, of the Conservatives
James Melville sets out the state the Conservatives have left Britain in after nine years in power – and wonders why people are still willing to give them their vote.
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Why Voting for the Tories is Political Stockholm Syndrome
James Melville argues that the appeal of the Conservative Party to the UK electorate is the greatest British political tragedy of the modern era.
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Brexit: The Great British Con
After Thatcherism and austerity, Brexit is the third part of a heist designed to wreck the social fabric of Britain
