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The Coronavirus Crisis: Can the Government be Trusted to Get Tracker App Right?
With the UK faltering out of lockdown, former MP Paul Farrelly looks at searching questions the Government faces over trust and competence as it rolls out its home-grown COVID-19 Tracker App.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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The Year of Living Distantly: The Architecture of a Post-Viral Society
If you want to know how to deal with social isolation and limited horizons, there are experts already among us explains Vida Adamczewski.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Centralising Failure of Public Health England
Dr John Ashton, a former director of public health, explores how the 2013 NHS reforms led to the shrinking and withering of our local and regional public health system.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Public Health England – Fit for Purpose in a Pandemic?
As the UK struggles to meet its Coronavirus testing targets, and care home deaths triple, former MP Paul Farrelly takes an in-depth look at the agency fronting the response. Work is still ongoing, despite lockdown, at the New Frontiers Science Park outside the challenged Essex town of Harlow, the site of Public Health England’s planned…
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The Coronavirus Crisis: ‘Following the Science?’ – Boris Johnson and his Government Should Look in the Mirror
The Secret Scientist starts her new insider series for Byline Times by reminding us that there is not just ‘one science’, and its validity rests on constant probing and peer review.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The UK’s Forgotten Asylum Seekers
Cut off from public funds, with rising food prices and diminishing charity support, Jonathan Fenton Harvey reveals the plight of refugees during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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The Government is Giving Away Your Money to the Mail and the Sun
The stench of corruption could hardly be stronger, says Brian Cathcart, on the bung Boris Johnson’s Government is giving to his employers in the British press.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Patrolling Hearts and Minds? A ‘Red Alert’ Surveillance Warning to the World
Steve Shaw reports on how concerns are already being raised about the introduction of new intrusive surveillance regimes being installed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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When the Political Becomes Personal: A Domestic Row Over COVID-19
Christina Patterson on how the contradictory and unreliable health advice from the UK Government over the Coronavirus crisis is causing tensions at home.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: It Took a Global Pandemic to Expose the Stock Market as a “Mirage”
Despite Donald Trump making it central to his presidency, the success of the stock market bears no connection to the lives of nearly 90% of American citizens.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Prime Minister Is Not Immune from Scrutiny – Despite what his Cheerleaders Say
With calls being voiced for journalists not to criticise the Government over its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, Otto English explores why this has never been more essential.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: UK Health and Care Worker Deaths Rises to 129
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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‘A National Scandal’ – Timeline of the UK Government’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
Ian Sinclair and Rupert Read’s regular update on how Britain came to have one of the highest COVID-19 per capita death rates in the world.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Public May Not Be Happy with the Government’s Media Critics – But We Must Not Stop Scrutinising
Editor of Scram News, Sam Bright, explains why the notion that critical journalists are the problem in this crisis has to be swiftly rejected.
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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 Year of Living Distantly: Paranoia in Cornwall
Alex Wade on how his plans to move abroad were stymied by the pandemic, and how an abandoned cottage and a missing book delivery revealed the rupture in time.
