The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every aspect of life across the world. But none are hit as hard, and with such a weak safety net, as those in the creative industries. Melissa Chemam discusses the impact of the crisis on Britain's artists, writers and musicians, and what the public response must be.
Many on the left have argued that the current crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to the conditions for a new socialism to emerge from the ashes. But, as Christine Berry argues, crises aren't only opportunities for the left, and the conditions that are emerging could well play into the hands of a renewed far-right.
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When we get back to thinking about climate change, what lessons can we draw from the coronavirus crash? Is suppressing economic activity (“degrowth”) the way to reduce carbon emissions? Chris Saltmarsh of Labour for a Green New Deal argues for a different approach
The proposals currently being tabled for how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak across Britain involve would each involve a fundamental transformation in the British economy and state. How strange it would be to see one of the most brazenly privileged, right-wing prime-ministers of modern times preside over a programme as transformative as that of the post-war Labour government. But, as Phil Jones argues, we cannot trust the Tories to push through the necessary, radical steps – instead we need a government of national unity.
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Nowhere has shown the limitations of Britain's coronavirus response as starkly than on the island of Ireland. Luke Butterly reports on one island, two responses.
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