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The Coronavirus Crisis: When Did the NHS Become a Charity?
To celebrate the first week of Yorkshire Bylines, a regional news site developed by YesWeWork using the Byline Times news template, Richard Sadler celebrates the formidable Captain Moore.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: 103 Confirmed Health and Care Worker Deaths in the UK
Byline Times and Nursing Notes collaborate to record all the staff who have lost their lives during the battle against COVID-19.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Climate Change or an Accelerator?
The COVID-19 pandemic has briefly cut global emissions, but could countries around the world simply return to business as usual in their attempts to repair the economic, political and social consequences of the virus once it has eased?
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The UK’s Perplexing Approach to COVID-19 – As Viewed from Hong Kong
Stuart Heaver reports from Hong Kong on the contrasting approach taken on the island to the Coronavirus pandemic – and the lessons the UK should have learned from it.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Germany’s Approach to COVID-19 Shows that Evidence Works – Will it Be Enough to See Off the Far-Right?
Musa Okwonga considers why it cannot be assumed that the German Government’s good handling of the Coronavirus pandemic will be remembered by the public once the outbreak eases.
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BREAKING: Number of Frontline Health and Care Staff who have Died Reaches 100 as PPE Row Intensifies
Byline Times and Nursing Notes collaborate to pay tribute to the staff who have lost their lives during the battle against COVID-19 — but political questions over personal protective equipment remain.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Putting Your Hands Up and Admitting When You Have Got It Wrong is the Only Way to Get It Right’
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, provides his take on where the web of deceit being spun at the very heart of Government is going to lead us all.
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WEEKLY UPDATE 20 APRIL: ‘A National Scandal’ – Timeline of the UK Government’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
Ian Sinclair and Rupert Read with a weekly update on how Britain came to have one of the highest COVID-19 per capita death rates in the world.
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In Asking for Public Subsidies the Press Should Live by the Rules they Apply to Harry and Meghan
Brian Cathcart explains why the press asking for public money to help them through the Coronavirus pandemic must follow the same reasoning they applied to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Two Deadly Viruses Are Wreaking Havoc in the US – COVID-19 and MAGA-20
CJ Werleman on the ‘liberation’ protests being held in some American states demanding an end to social distancing measures to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Dysfunction Fuelling the UK’s Care Home Epidemic
Former MP Paul Farrelly investigates how disjointed responses by turf-minded authorities in one English county reflect a nationwide pattern at the heart of the country’s nursing home crisis.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Will Our COVID-19 Lockdown Make Us think More About Why We Imprison So Many People?
Duncan Campbell discusses how the words ‘lockdown’ and ‘stir-crazy” were an all too familiar reality for a section of our society long before the Coronavirus pandemic appeared.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Keeping Faith with NHS Volunteers While Community Initiatives Blossom
Stephen Colegrave investigates whether the NHS Volunteer Responders scheme is working and discovers an amazing array of local and community initiatives.
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Boris Johnson Said ‘Superman’ Brexit Britain would Take Advantage of COVID Pandemic and Go Its Own Way – Seven Weeks Before Lockdown
In new comments unearthed by Byline Times from a speech the Prime Minister delivered in early February, Johnson said COVID-19 would cause “real and unnecessary economic damage” beyond “what is medically rational”.
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Six Important Facts About Coronavirus Disinformation
Samantha North reveals on how COVID-19 propaganda is being monetised and exploited to promote political polarisation.
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Spain has Similar COVID-19 Death Rates as the UK but their Papers Provide Scrutiny Instead of Sycophancy
Alex White reports on how, unlike the British popular press, the most widely-read Spanish newspapers hold their Government to account.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Take Back Control
Molly Scott Cato argues that the public-school approach of fighting COVID-19 like a wartime enemy results in needless casualties and no exit strategy.
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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: We Must Commit Now to a Public Inquiry to Uncover the Truth on COVID-19
Brian Cathcart explains why political parties should back calls in a letter published today in the Financial Times to commit right now to holding a public inquiry into the UK’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Government Not Classing Over-60s as At-Risk as UK Not a ‘Developing Nation’
Why is the UK only defining those over-70 as requiring shielding during the Coronavirus pandemic, in contradiction to guidance from the World Health Organisation?
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The Coronavirus Crisis: It Was There For All to See in the £20 Notes – Wasn’t it?
Otto English explains how nations that start by normalising conspiracy theories end up having their phone masts burned down
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The Coronavirus Crisis: India is Using COVID-19 to Advance its Hindu Settler Colonial Enterprise in Kashmir
With the world’s attention on the Coronavirus pandemic, India’s Government is introducing more draconian measures to advance its nationalist aims.
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Labour Must Build a New Coalition Under Keir Starmer to Win Again
Mike Buckley gives his take on what the Labour Party now needs to think about in terms of identity, class and the Coronavirus crisis.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The UK Was Not in a Healthy State Before this Pandemic Descended
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, gives his take on how the next decisions can be made on the UK’s lockdown, the lack of press scrutiny and why the Government’s ‘goal’ of keeping deaths to 20,000 may be affecting their reporting
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The Coronavirus Crisis: COVID-19 Exposes the US as a Third-World Country
CJ Werleman explains how the Coronavirus has starkly exposed all of the US’ structural social problems and made them worse.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Emergency is in Danger of Normalising the Abnormal
As part of a La Stampa-Byline Times collaboration, Jacopo Iacoboni explores what Italy’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic exposes about the state of its politics
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Honour the Fallen: They Died For Us
Byline Times pays tribute to the incredible health and care staff who have lost their lives to the Coronavirus while protecting the public.
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PANDEMONICS: The False Choice Between National Wealth and National Health
Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London, explains why we don’t need to turn a health crisis into an economic depression.
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Did Experts Fail to “Speak Truth to Power” Over ‘Targeted Herd Immunity’?
Hardeep Matharu speaks to a NHS consultant about how the politics of inevitability infected the UK Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘A National Scandal’: A Timeline of the UK Government’s Woeful Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
Ian Sinclair and Rupert Read with comprehensive countdown to how Britain came to have one of highest COVID-19 per capita death rates in the world.
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Coronavirus: We Must Resist this Exercise in Hypernormalisation
Hardeep Matharu warns against becoming numb to the constructed reality being created by politicians as the UK gets to grips with the immense human cost of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Leaked Home Office Call Reveals Government wants Economy to ‘Continue Running’ as ‘We Will All Get’ COVID-19 Anyway
Nafeez Ahmed reports on Home Office private advice suggesting a ‘zombie herd immunity’ policy risking hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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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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Five Weeks of Italian Lockdown: Welcome to Your Future
As Italy enters the fifth week of lockdown, Kamin Mohammadi gives the rest of the world some insights into what happens next.
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The Year of Living Distantly: We Were Boxed In Before Lockdown
Byline Times’ Editor Hardeep Matharu reflects on some of the profound questions raised by the Coronavirus pandemic and how we have been living our lives.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Does COVID-19 Prove Women Are Best Suited to Lead in a Crisis?
New Zealand and Germany have been commended for their approaches to tackling the Coronavirus pandemic – does the fact that both are led by females hold the key to their success?
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Exploiting a Pandemic: Billionaire Press Owners Want Your Tax Money
Brian Cathcart argues that, while journalism is in crisis because of COVID-19, subsidies to untrustworthy newspaper proprietors are not the answer.
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From Hot Florida to a Frozen Canada: A Coronavirus Odyssey
Chris Blask narrates an epic transcontinental journey with his family, a Labrador, Turtle and a Parakeet in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Nightingale Hospitals Are an Amazing Achievement – But What About Aftercare?
Stephen Colegrave reports ON a new paper that explains what COVID-19 intensive care survivors need to regain their physical and mental health
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Hope for Jewish Remainers: A Portuguese Passport
Blaise Baquiche explains his unusual route to regaining EU citizenship, through a ‘law of return’ in reparation for the horrors of the Inquisition.
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Democracy in the UK – How Worried Should We Be?
Mike Buckley observes how authoritarian takeovers are often led by elected incumbents and finds worrying signs in Boris Johnson’s populist approach.
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Life on the Covid-19 Frontline: Only the Brave
Mark Conrad talks to senior staff about the risks faced by NHS workers tackling the Coronavirus – and precisely why hospitals become virus “hotspots”
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Odeon Of Death Film of the Month: Planet of the Goats
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month’s events through the medium of cinema.
