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A Total Fiasco

England’s response to the coronavirus pandemic now relies on unskilled teenaged call centre workers, taking the place of experienced clinicians.

The huge amount of public money spent on test and trace has been wasted by incompetent private contractors and executives, with devastating results.

The government retreats for billionaires, while smashing down our doors.

The BBC amplifies the voices of billionaires, and shuts down those who challenge them.

World summits and politicians’ promises are not taking us closer to environmental salvation, but further away.

Let’s create communities from which we scarcely have to travel.

Full-scale participatory democracy would change everything. It has the same revolutionary potential as the universal franchise and women’s suffrage.

The UK’s economic and political life revolves around corruption.

The opaque and secretive networks on which Boris Johnson builds his power.

The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.

Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.

Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.

The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.

Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition.

Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad?

How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?

History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities.

The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term.

The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming.