Tag: Coronavirus

The UK government only outlined what coronavirus crisis support it will be providing to self-employed and gig economy workers on ...

Tory MP promotes Covid-19 ‘collective effort’ while taking £100k from company profiting from testing

by Emily Apple

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Conservative MP Owen Paterson wrote an article in the Express on 22 March. He said: TACKLING the global Covid-19 pandemic is going ...

No one’s buying the excuses for Charles ‘jumping the queue’ to get a coronavirus test

by Eliza Egret

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Prince Charles flouted government lockdown rules and flew to Balmoral on Sunday, seemingly knowing that he was ill. He was ...

Skyline of banks at Canary Wharf, including HSBC and Barclays

There’s a big catch in the government’s plan to help businesses through coronavirus

by John Ranson

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The government is gradually announcing measures to help the country cope with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. One plan, aimed at ...

The Tories choose a ‘longtime’ associate’s company to manufacture crucial ventilators

by John McEvoy

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The mass production of ventilators is required to help those who contract coronavirus (Covid-19) and develop respiratory problems. The UK ...

New data shows poverty figures had reached a record high before coronavirus hit

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The latest Government statistics show the number of children in poverty increased to 100,000 last year.

GPs demand ‘urgent clarity’ over protective equipment guidance

Family doctors are not sure if they have enough supplies, either now or as the crisis deepens, the Royal College ...

British prisons have now seen their first coronavirus death

The inmate at HMP Littlehey, a category C male sex offenders’ jail in Cambridgeshire, reportedly had underlying health issues.

The coronavirus crisis is proving our current economic system to be a death cult

by Peter Bolton

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In the weeks since the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread around the globe, the stock market has been going haywire ...

Doctors’ union warns that both staff and patients will die without proper protection

The Government has drafted in the Army to help deliver supplies of personal protective equipment to medics

A US high-school student has set up an authoritative resource on the global spread of coronavirus

by Tom Anderson

A high-school student in the US has developed an authoritative website tracking the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19). The ...

40-year-old coronavirus patient sends warning to the world from his intensive care bed

A coronavirus (Covid-19) patient has sent a powerful warning to the world from his intensive care bed in the north ...

Next offers staff 20% bonus for travelling to work despite lockdown

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High street fashion chain Next is offering staff a 20% boost to their pay if they turn up to stores ...

The ex-DWP boss just whitewashed coronavirus Universal Credit chaos live on the BBC

by Steve Topple

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The ex-Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) boss has managed to whitewash the chaos around Universal Credit in the face ...

One video perfectly sums up the moral bankruptcy of hard-line capitalism

by Ed Sykes

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One right-wing US politician has given what must be one of the worst takes on the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic so ...

NHS aims to test ‘hundreds of thousands of people per day’ within weeks