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The Coronavirus Crisis: Why Are Lies More Attractive than Science?
, 30 March 2020
Sarah Haque explores the gap between expert and public understandings of science and why this poses such challenges in times of public health crises such as the Coronavirus pandemic.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Democracy in Danger
Coronavirus
Democracy
Public Health
Science
Society and Welfare
Sociology
UK Politics
Twitter Cannot Keep Hiding Behind Blanket Anonymity
, 30 March 2020
Why are social media companies so reluctant to accept the harm caused by allowing users to set up anonymous accounts?
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Democracy
Social Media
Tech, Data and Algorithms
UK Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: China Capitalises on COVID-19 By Blaming Foreigners
, 30 March 2020
CJ Werleman looks at the international conspiracy theories being thrown around about the Coronavirus and how the Chinese Communist Party is using the pandemic to further its geopolitical goals.
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Argument
Reportage
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
China
Coronavirus
Donald Trump
Foreign Affairs
Public Health
United States of America
The Coronavirus Crisis: More Austerity Doesn’t have to be the Answer to a COVID-19 Recession
, 27 March 2020
Stephen Colegrave on why using austerity to justify the right-wing claim that the 'cure is worse than the disease' is so damaging in the fight against the Coronavirus.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Austerity
Business
Conservative Party
Coronavirus
Donald Trump
Economics, Finance and Money
Economy
Health
Public Health
Public Services
Society and Welfare
Trump
UK Politics
United States of America
US Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: What Should Happen Next in Hospitals, Homes, Prisons and the Community?
, 26 March 2020
Dr John Ashton explains how the threat posed by the Coronavirus will be amplified in closed settings and communities.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Health
Prisons
Public Health
Social Care
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
The Trial of Alex Salmond: What Only the Jury Knows
, 25 March 2020
The former First Minister of Scotland was cleared of all charges against him at Edinburgh's High Court on Monday. Here, court reporter James Doleman shares his thoughts on covering the trial.
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Argument
Courts
Crime and Justice
Law
Scotland
UK Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: Trump is Choosing Mass Graves Over Social Distancing to Save the Stock Market
, 25 March 2020
The lives of Americans are being put in grave danger because of the President's incompetence, misinformation and narcissism, says CJ Werleman.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Donald Trump
Economics, Finance and Money
Foreign Affairs
Public Health
United States of America
US Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: The Obnoxious Stupidity of Flag-Waving Patriotism
, 23 March 2020
CJ Werleman argues that those flocking to beaches at the weekend and flouting social distancing measures to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak cannot be called patriotic.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Australia
Coronavirus
Donald Trump
Foreign Affairs
Public Health
United States of America
US Politics
Help, I’m a Teenager, Get Me Out of Here
, 20 March 2020
Sofia Overton sets out how Generation Z is in a near constant state of anxiety as existential crisis after existential crisis seems to unfold.
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Argument
Brexit
Climate Change
Coronavirus
Environment
Extremism
Sociology
Can Rishi Sunak’s Budget Satisfy the New Red Wall Conservatives?
, 20 March 2020
Mike Buckley provides an analysis of why he believes the Government's first budget – and the pressures of the Coronavirus outbreak – will be unable to satisfy its new Red Wall Conservative voters.
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Argument
Boris Johnson
Conservative Party
Coronavirus
Economics, Finance and Money
Economy
General Election 2019
Health
Public Health
UK Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: The Cloud of Unknowing and the Veil of Ignorance
, 19 March 2020
Hardeep Matharu explores how the uncertainty around the Covid-19 pandemic has reanimated forgotten philosophies of social justice and mutual aid.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Philosophy
Public Health
The Coronavirus Crisis: The Crisis of Incompetence
, 19 March 2020
Paul Niland explores how the global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the weakness of populist politics and unprincipled power.
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Argument
Brexit, Trump, Russia
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Public Health
You Cannot Sing ‘Rule Britannia’ to a Virus
, 19 March 2020
Musa Okwonga on why the British notion of exceptionalism can be seen in the country's handling of the Coronavirus outbreak and why it should just admit that it's not really that rebellious – despite the myths it tells itself.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Public Health
The Coronavirus Crisis: Is £330 Billion Going to Get to the Right People?
, 18 March 2020
Stephen Colegrave investigates whether the new UK Government support package is going to help the working population or just prop up big business.
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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Economics, Finance and Money
Economy
Equality and Diversity
Health
Inequality
Public Health
Society and Welfare
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Stalinist and Reductionist: How the UK Government Created the Worst-Case Scenario
, 18 March 2020
John Ashton, the former senior public health director who first questioned the UK Government's response to COVID-19 on the BBC, finds a ray of hope.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Boris Johnson
Coronavirus
Health
Public Health
UK Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: Mistake Over ‘Herd Immunity’ Has Cost Us Vital Time
, 17 March 2020
Mike Buckley sets out the Government's strategy towards the COVID-19 outbreak so far and explores why its handling of it already raises much bigger questions about the country's governance – concerns which have been there all along.
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Reportage
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Austerity
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Coronavirus
Economics, Finance and Money
Health
Public Health
Society and Welfare
UK Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: We Need to Bail Out the British Public
, 17 March 2020
Stephen Colegrave considers those who are vulnerable to the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak and how important it is for the Government to support them.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Class
Coronavirus
Economics, Finance and Money
Economy
Equality and Diversity
Health
Homelessness
Inequality
Poverty
Public Health
Social Care
UK Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis: Journalists Should Not Pick Sides
, 16 March 2020
Brian Cathcart on why reporting that helps people form a balanced understanding of the Coronavirus outbreak so that they can make up their own minds in an informed way is absolutely vital.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Broadcasters
Coronavirus
Journalism
Media
Newspapers
Public Health
The Coronavirus Crisis: The Danger of America Being a ‘Me’ Country Not a ‘We’ Country
, 16 March 2020
CJ Werleman explains why a national philosophy of selfishness and a President who willingly spreads disinformation is such as a threat to America as it tackles the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Argument
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Coronavirus
Donald Trump
Foreign Affairs
History
Public Health
United States of America
US Politics
Turkish Delight? Putin and Erdogan’s Complicated Relationship
, 15 March 2020
After the Turkish and Russian Presidents met in Moscow to discuss the situation in Idlib, Stephen Komarnyckyj looks at the current relationship between the two countries.
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Argument
Foreign Affairs
Iran
Russia
Syria
Turkey
Ukraine
Vladimir Putin
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