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The NHS pay revolt took off on Saturday as thousands marched in towns and cities across Britain. 

The latest test and trace figures for England, released on Thursday, are another record of disaster.

Early in Britain’s Covid-19 crisis, when figures revealed that black people were dying at a disproportional rate, right wingers rushed to explain this as a biological trait. It was proof, they said, of inherent racial differences.

The NHS workers’ pay revolt is hugely welcome. It shows how there is real anger in society and working class fury can explode unexpectedly, often outside the official channels of the labour movement.

A logistics firm at the centre of a spike of coronavirus was slammed for poor health and safety at the beginning of the crisis.

Government ministers have ‘paused’ a vital measure to protect the most vulnerable—without any evidence

The World Health Organisation recorded the highest daily number of new cases globally on Saturday. 

Health workers across Britain are taking the pay fight into their own hands

The rolling out of new measures to tackle obesity shames poor people and will not tackle a crisis that the Tories made worse, says Sarah Bates

England has had “the longest continuous period of excess mortality” and “the highest levels of excess mortality” in Europe.

Health workers’ fury burst onto the streets of London on Wednesday as over 1,500 marched on Downing Street.

Mass demonstrations, strikes and consistent campaigning have forced the French government to give a pay rise to health workers.