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LABOUR MPs Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon upped calls for a zero-Covid strategy to beat the pandemic at a People’s Assembly online rally last night.
Ms Abbott slammed Boris Johnson’s government for prioritising private-sector profit over human life with its “sleazy contracts” and “jobs for the boys and girls like [test-and-trace supremo] Dido Harding, who has no public health background whatsoever but happens to be the wife of a Tory MP.”
As for privateers like Serco, Sitel and Deloitte running a “world-beating” test-and-trace system, she asked: “Who ever heard of Serco running a world-beating anything?”
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities