Why community is key to support mental health during coronavirus
With the coronavirus heightening stress and anxiety, it is a difficult time for all of us as we seek to support both our physical and mental health. The coronavirus pandemic…
The Oil Economy: A Resource Guide
Oil Rigs. Image credit via Carol Highsmith, rawpixel, Creative Commons. As if the world didn't feel chaotic enough, the oil price went negative. For those interested in how this happened,…
We’re in a crisis – we need housing justice for all
The housing crisis in the UK has been reaching tipping point for some time, and the current crisis has laid bare the inadequacies in the system designed to support those…
5 explanations of the negative price of oil – and what climate activists can do now
On Monday April 20, reports began to emerge that the price of oil is now negative. Here are five explanations of what this means, and what climate activists can do…
Where next for Jewish media after the collapse of the Jewish Chronicle?
The Jewish Chronicle (JC), and its sister newspaper the Jewish News went into liquidation last week. For the Jewish Chronicle this ends a run of 179 years of continuous publishing.…
Why Toby Young is wrong about lockdown
As the UK’s coronavirus outbreak begins to peak, right wing hacks such as Toby Young and Daniel Hannan are already calling for an early exit from lockdown. These rash cries…
Neoliberalism has given us a broken democracy. It’s time to fix it.
It may be a massive cliche, but it bears repeating. The novel coronavirus has swamped our lives. The pandemic has brought illness, disruption, job losses and underemployment, and death to…
Green Parties must embrace class politics
Green Parties have long championed universal provision as a means of avoiding the cruelty, waste, and coercion of means tested systems of welfare provision. Universal Basic Income, for years a…
Greens must challenge 5G conspiracy theorists
This week, the BBC, Guardian and others reported a spike in the number of arson attacks on 5G infrastructure across England. One incident involved a 5G tower relied upon by…
The myth of British exceptionalism has driven the inept response to coronavirus
We are seemingly becoming used to dramatic and disturbing headlines on a daily basis during the coronavirus pandemic. Reported deaths in the UK from Covid-19 have risen to over 10,000,…