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‘Systemic Racism within a Rigged System’: New Investigation Reveals how Travellers Sites are Routinely Placed in Risky Locations
As misrepresentations of, and discriminatory attitudes towards, Gypsies and Travellers continue to manifest, Katharine Quarmby confirms the structural inequalities levelled against them through extensive new data analysis
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COVID Variants Demand Stronger Safety Measures for Children
We should be concerned, not just for children’s ability to spread the Coronavirus but also their capacity to suffer from it for years to come, says Mike Buckley
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The Colombia Uprisings Offer a Warning About Post-Pandemic Unrest Across the Developing World
Protestors are facing physical and sexual violence amid police crackdowns of anti-Government dissent, reports Nadja Sieniawski
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Controversial PPE Supplier Admitted Agent Intended to ‘Bribe Officials’ in China
A firm that won £340 million in PPE deals told the Government that its local agent intended to bribe factory workers
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£7 Billion COVID Bailout for Private Train Firms Includes £70 Million ‘Management Fees’
Private rail operators are still making millions of pounds, despite the difficulties caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, reports Sam Bright
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Child Offenders Spending 23 Hours a Day Locked in their Cells During Coronavirus Crisis
David Hencke reports on worrying developments in a longstanding issue: how the criminal justice system treats children and young people in offenders’ institutions
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Was Signing Trade Deals with Modi More Important to the Government than Stopping the Spread of the Indian COVID Variant?
Nabanita Sircar reports on the continued spread of the B.1.617.2 variant in Britain – which has led to a devastating second wave of the Coronavirus in India – and Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown
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‘Gaslit by Government’: NHS Staff Tell of Mental Health Impact of PPE Shortages
As the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor UK take the Government to the High Court over PPE, Sian Norris talks to staff working on the front line without protection
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BBC’s ‘Three Families’ Shows How the Fight For Abortion Rights in the UK Continues
A primetime drama about abortion in Northern Ireland shows that there is more work to be done to protect a woman’s right to choose in the UK, Sian Norris argues
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‘Government Could Have Saved More Than 100,000 Lives During Pandemic’, Says Former Chief Scientist
Sir David King speaks to Byline Times about herd immunity, private sector outsourcing, the vaccine roll-out, and future threats
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COVID Variants and a Third Wave: Scientists Warn Government Is ‘Sleepwalking into Disaster’
Coronavirus variants could lead to a ‘treble size’ third wave, warns SAGE, if Britain’s roadmap out of lockdown loosens all restrictions too early, reports Dr Nafeez Ahmed
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Downing Street Refurbishment Conducted by Firm With Conservative Links
Two Tory peers and a Government ‘advisor’ have close ties a firm tasked with revamping Downing Street, Sam Bright reveals
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Boris Johnson is Bombproof, While Labour Runs Out of Second Chances
Keir Starmer’s side must reckon with the reasons why it lost to a party that has had 150,000 people die on its watch, says Sam Bright
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Top World Health Organisation COVID-19 Advisor Bankrolled by Great Barrington Declaration Successor Organisation
Nafeez Ahmed raises asks why the global health body is seeking input from scientists linked to the discredited theory of herd immunity by natural infection
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Could Its COVID Catastrophe Save Indian Democracy from Fascism?
CJ Werleman explores how the gross mismanagement of the Coronavirus’ second wave in India may have created serious problems for Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-populist Government
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Government Cuts to Reproductive Health Funding Fit into an Anti-Rights Agenda
The international aid cuts to reproductive health services put women’s lives at risk and reflect the anti-rights positions of more than one Conservative donor, Sian Norris reports
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From Cameron to COVID: 10 Years of Broken Transparency Promises
John Lubbock explains how the Coronavirus pandemic has unravelled the Government’s glib commitment to openness over public contracts
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A Smokescreen for Tragedy: The Human Cost of Populism
The ultimate cost of corruption, incompetence, division and myth is always there, waiting to be brought home – as it has been for too many people in India and around the world during the Coronavirus pandemic, writes Hardeep Matharu
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The Love Affair With Privatised Healthcare Has Been Exposed
Professor John Ashton reflects on what the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the UK about public health
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Sabre-Rattling in Australia: Why is Rupert Murdoch Beating the Drums of War over China?
CJ Werleman warns that, though it may play well in domestic politics, the bellicose rhetoric over China’s strategic threat may lead Scott Morrison’s Government little room to manoeuvre
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COVID Sceptics, Vulnerable Scapegoats and Sacrifice
Reverend Joe Haward explores what is motivating anti-lockdown protestors and how the elderly and those with underlying health conditions are their ultimate targets
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Government Pays £38 Million to Firm After Reneging on COVID Contract
Matt Hancock’s department was forced to pay a large settlement to a company after deciding to pull out of a ‘Test and Trace’ deal, reports Stephen Delahunty
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PTSD In NHS Workers Linked to Lack of PPE
A groundbreaking study into the psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on NHS workers finds that PPE shortages were associated with severe mental health symptoms, Sian Norris reports
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Against the Wall: How Johnson’s Cronyism Contributed to his Woeful Mishandling of the Coronavirus Pandemic
From “she’s buying gold wallpaper” to “let the bodies pile high”, questions must be asked about the priority the Prime Minister gave to the pandemic when it emerged last year – at the same time as he was worrying about matters closer to home
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COVID in Brazil Fanned by Mutant Strains and a Mutant Government
Monica Piccinini reports on the increasing infection and death rates in Brazil from new Coronavirus variants and the lack of Government action
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‘The Government has to Listen to Us’: Boris Johnson Dodges Seventh Invite to Meet the COVID Bereaved
Tom Charlesworth speaks to the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group about the Prime Minister’s refusal to meet with it and the National COVID Memorial Wall it has created to honour each victim of the virus
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‘Mendacious Approaches’: Great Barrington Group Letter Co-Signed by Government Advisors
Nafeez Ahmed reveals the links between an open letter claiming COVID-19 is a mild disease to pandemic disinformation networks and anti-vaccine propaganda
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Britain’s Political Media Corruption: A Coalition of the Guilty
From Leveson to Brexit, phone-hacking to Cambridge Analytica, Peter Jukes sees a consistent theme – parties on the run from the rule of law. And how Dominic Cummings could end the cycle of corruption
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Vaccines Versus Variants: The Vital Flaw in Johnson’s COVID Roadmap
Mike Buckley explores how the Government is taking a big risk in staking Britain’s return to normality almost solely on vaccines
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The Apotheosis of Apophenia: Conspiratorial Minds
What links the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy to Coronavirus denial? Otto English has found a pattern…
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Westminster’s Apathy Over ‘Let Bodies Pile High’ Allegations
Some sections of the mainstream media are downplaying or distorting claims that the Prime Minister voiced a stark disregard for people’s lives during the Coronavirus crisis, says Sam Bright
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India, Brazil, Britain: Exceptionalism Kills as Populism Thrives
With the spread and impact of the Coronavirus reaching alarming levels in India and Brazil, Kimi Chaddah explores how Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro and Boris Johnson failed their countries but kept their popularity
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‘We Did Everything We Could’: Four Reasons Why the Government’s COVID Narrative is False
PPE procurement, Test and Trace, Nightingale hospitals, ventilators… Sam Bright rebuts the official rhetoric with some facts
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Scientist Linked to Great Barrington Declaration Embroiled in World Health Organization Conflict of Interest
Nafeez Ahmed reports on allegations of cronyism over the funding of a research paper which tries to dismiss evidence that COVID-19 is an airborne infection
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‘We Are Waiting for Patients to Die so Others Can Have Their Beds’: Lebanon’s Medics Tell Their Story
First-hand testimony from Lebanon’s young healthcare workers reveals the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the country
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Timeline of the Plague Year: An Extract
Rupert Read and Ian Sinclair dissect the Government’s woeful response to the country’s worst public health crisis in a century
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The Complicated Relationship Between China and the Far-Right
As global pressure grows over China’s persecution of its Uyghur minority, CJ Werleman considers how the Government is harnessing the far-right to counter human rights criticisms of the regime
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David Cameron: Johnson’s Convenient Scapegoat
With his dual tactics of projection and deflection, the current Prime Minister has pulled off a masterstroke by launching an inquiry into the former Prime Minister’s conflicts of interest, says Hardeep Matharu
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Conflict of Interest Concerns Over £15 Million COVID Contract
A new Government deal raises further questions about the Government’s approach to conflict of interest transparency
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‘We’re Living in a Bizarre Fantasy World’: Alastair Campbell on Boris Johnson, Brexit and Labour
The former Downing Street communications chief is incensed about the state of politics and the media
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The Two Week Wait: Why Did Ministers Keep the Public in the Dark About the South African COVID-19 Variant?
Hamzah Khalique-Loonat looks at Matt Hancock’s delays over a dangerous Coronavirus mutation
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Dido Harding Hands More Power to Local Health Teams in NHS Test and Trace Trial
After months of pressure, more responsibility has been handed to local contact tracers, reports Sam Bright
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Human Rights Watchdog Boss Quits Amid Lockdown Breach Allegations
Rebecca Hilsenrath appears to be the only senior figure in Whitehall to have resigned over an apparent violation of Coronavirus restrictions, David Hencke reports
