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Published in: Global ExtremesCoping with crisis: How much “resilience” is on display?Covid-19 shows the idea people triumph alone over adversity is a myth – it takes the support and resources of a society.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK coronavirus guidance could cause spike in child deaths, doctors warnExperts demand change in public messaging, warning that confused parents are too scared to take sick kids to hospital or GPs.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTo grab this moment, the next Labour leader will need humilityCoronavirus changes everything.
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Published in: 50.50‘Absurd’ rules obstruct abortion access in Italy during COVID-19Abortion has been legal in Italy for 40 years, but guidelines say medical terminations must occur in hospitals – now...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA call for sanity and tolerance in Iran at a time of national emergencyAn open letter to Iran’s head of judiciary and deputy leader of Iran’s council of experts, Hojat-ol Eslam Ebrahim Raissi.
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Published in: HomeSign up to our coronavirus DemocracyWatch newsletterRegimes around the world are rushing through anti-democratic measures. Sign up to our newsletter to follow the crackdown.
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Published in: Global ExtremesResilience, radicalisation and democracy in the COVID-19 PandemicWith lockdowns, an already alarming situation of vulnerability to political manipulation is at risk of becoming a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI’ll tell you what’s ramping up – my anger at the UK government’s disingenuous scriptMinisters talk as if the COVID-19 outbreak is all going to plan. I love escapist fantasy too, but the facts suggest...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 in Iraq: the virus of social inequalityThe coronavirus is above all a fight against the corrupt state and the social inequalities produced by it.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernovaThere is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immuneAre religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
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Published in: HomeUK security services face some awkward questions when the pandemic is overThe government knew that pandemics were a major threat – and that the NHS was not ready to handle one. So why have...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGermany: is the COVID-19 pandemic weakening the far right?German far-right responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal their lack of social responsibility.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStop blaming ordinary people for the UK’s pandemic failuresBoris Johnson has presided over a public policy disaster. Now, he wants you to blame your neighbours. Don't.
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Published in: HomeCultural stockpiling: mind food in pandemic lockdownThe openDemocracy team's recommendations for books, music, films and TV that will get you through the crisis.
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat the ‘war on terror’ can teach us about the fight against COVID-19‘Extremism’ must not be cast as an epidemic. But we can learn relevant lessons from the problems created in countering it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must undo a decade of disastrous NHS reformsCovid-19 shows how our health service has been undermined
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCan the coronavirus save the planet?The corona crisis signifies a civilization that is dying. But it also shows a 'pluriverse' of other worlds rising up.
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionCoronavirus has strengthened the case for the BBCThe right has been desperate to sell of the BBC for years. But Covid-19 shows why we need public service broadcasting.
