#Privatised

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

I hope you’re sitting down, because this week’s column should make you very, very angry. It shows how professional clinicians employed by the NHS in crucial test and trace jobs

Clive Peedell

cpeedell

THREAD on healthcare for US voters:Republicans repeatedly claim that “socialised” medicine means taking healthcare away from people. I come from the UK, the home of socialised medicine since 1948 in

CarolineJMolloy

carolinejmolloy

“financial anxiety in time of sickness is a serious hindrance to recovery, apart from its unnecessary cruelty.” Nye Bevan, ‘In Place of Fear’If you haven’t read it already, put this

Daniel Trilling

trillingual

At the heart of this story is the use of hotels by the Home Office - and its private contractors - as emergency accommodation during the pandemic. But it goes

MistaSped

MistaSped

A centrist by mind with a left Libertarian compass & a #ConservativeParty stance for the #GeneralElection2019 . Am I something of a tripolitical prodigy? Or are others just as perplexed

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Apparently the Treasury is considering creating a “public funding body” which “could be similar to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC) that was created after the Second World War”.What

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yarrambat

Thread. Stop getting all excited about free childcare. Home truths and truisms. My SO works in the industry at various levels - planning, educating, training, and caring.1. ONLY the Coronavirus

John Lubbock

jwsal

I have been compiling a giant spreadsheet of government contracts responding to Coronavirus since the end of May, and the data available on them from the contractsfinder site is opaque

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

In a report which it has given to the Financial Times but has not published to the public which paid for it, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has

Herman Mashaba

HermanMashaba

If we don't put our economy near the top of our agenda, and face our economic crisis with the same energy we are fighting this health crisis, we will emerge

Ben White

drbenwhite

During the covid19 crisis 'the positive professor' Karol Sikora, CMO of Rutherford Cancer Centres, has been promoting his private interests. On 11th May he tweeted: "can we please stop with

⚫David Gadd

ProfDavidGadd

What if we were to follow social science as we ‘follow the science’? A thread. In criminology, we know that when governments start casting around for folkdevils, it is to

Mike Wallis

mikewallis11

Reading this has been on my to-do list for a couple of weeks, given there is a non-zero chance this will happen. Will give some thoughts once I've actually read

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Rachael Swindon: "All you people calling Corbyn 'Magic Grandpa' are offensive and disgusting". ALSO RACHAEL SWINDON Rachael, of course, is in extremely difficult personal circumstances. She regularly makes appeals on

Alexandre Afonso

alexandreafonso

Here's a small thread about why the map of the 2015 legislative elections in Portugal looks remarkably similar to the map of Portugal in 1160. Northern Portugal has traditionally been

Sinéad Mercier

sineadmercier

Today I formally left @greenparty_ie - I was a member for over 10yrs, its primary researcher in opposition from 2016-19 & an advocate for climate justice/just transition within and outside