Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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A drop in the ocean: what I learned as a community aid volunteer
MILES ELLINGHAM chronicles his experience volunteering for a local Covid-19 mutual-aid group in London and how the vulnerable tell a story of systemic government unpreparedness
Signs thanking key workers and the NHS are seen in South London
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
SINCE lockdown, despite the rising death toll, hundreds of thousands of young people have come forward in an empathic embrace for those most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.
There are 750,000 NHS responder applicants, weekend supermarket staff and up to 400 different community aid groups.
This explosion of compassionate manpower has been described in the New York Times as “a stirring display of British national solidarity” and may even have led Boris Johnson to negate Thatcher’s famous maxim, admitting: “There is such a thing as society.”
News of a volunteer army blossoming out of a deeply divided society is good news, and quite moving too. However, we mustn’t pat ourselves on the back too hard. Having volunteered to ferry groceries and medicine for the local community relief group, I can tell you first-hand, the more people you interact with, the more apparent our institutional shortfalls become.
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