The glorious victory by 750,000 people, orchestrated by very skilful trades unions, to keep railway station ticket offices open, is important for a whole number of reasons – not just the obvious ones of convenience to passengers and the retention of accumulated...
Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of the great architectural critic Charles Jencks who passed judgement on the failures of inhuman, modernist buildings. It was also when the...
Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics of which are now banned from school educational materials – isn’t working The testing crisis in which we are now engulfed could...
In the sorry tale of the UK’s response to the corona virus there are many lessons. The current unfolding illumination is how test and trace is destined to fail because of the actions of this and previous governments which have rendered a sensible response to testing...
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such widely shared moment has been revelations about the brazen breaking by members of the government of their own public safety measures. Another such a moment,...
