The Coronavirus Crisis

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how legal pressure from a law firm also advising the Government on COVID-19 eclipsed scientific warnings about the ‘explosive’ growth of Coronavirus infections with the re-opening of schools

One year after the first COVID-19 lockdown, Byline Times and The Citizens can reveal that almost a billion pounds in Government contracts has been awarded to 15 firms that are linked to millions of pounds of Conservative donations

Mike Buckley reports on how the decisions of other governments to provide more comprehensive support to businesses during the pandemic will likely put their economies in a much stronger position than the UK’s

The widespread panic about schooling during the pandemic reveals the rotten assumptions that underpin our education system, says Chris Bagley

As news emerges that the Test and Trace programme budgeted for £438 million to be spent on management consultants, Matthew Gwyther delves into the inner workings of the industry

Neha Maqsood considers the individual and collective experiences of the past year, which she argues should inform our post-pandemic existence

The Tory peer and senior Cabinet Office official appears to have benefitted financially from a firm that has won millions in public sector contracts

Saba Salman speaks to people with learning disabilities to explore how the Government can prevent this group from being sidelined again – as they have been during the Coronavirus pandemic

Monica Piccinini reports on how Covid denialism of the populist Brazilian government is fuelling a Coronavirus catastrophe for the whole of Latin America

NHS Professionals has apologised to prospective non-healthcare vaccinators, who undertook hours of training yet haven’t been able to find work

The Department for Education has made it clear that the head of the review will face funding constraints and operate under the watchful gaze of Government officials, reports Sam Bright

The company has won two more contracts worth £46.1 million, Sam Bright reports

Mike Buckley reports on how the Government has wasted a year in providing COVID-19 protection for nearly nine million pupils

With a Government crackdown on protests to be voted on imminently, frontline NHS doctor Meenal Viz explores how powerful taking a stand can be in speaking truth to power and enacting change

The company owner has donated more than £2.5 million to the Tory Party in recent years

A selected list of misleading statements that Peter Oborne has sent to the Speaker of the House of Commons

Paying inflated rates to companies without competition, Matt Hancock bought a vast excess of equipment, official records reveal

Amongst the politics swirling around the Coronavirus crisis, Britain must find time for collective grief, says Stefan Simanowitz

The owner of a medical company that won huge PPE contacts has donated to Boris Johnson’s party

Firms which have donated money to the governing party have now been awarded COVID-19 deals worth £900 million, though the latest firm denies any political interference