Ministers claim COVID-19 response is led by science and experts – so why is Gilligan calling up labs to negotiate critical virus testing? Labour demands clarity.
The image can be an act of resistance and testimony that helps to understand the origins and development of the conflict during Syria’s most difficult years.
The vocabulary of war contributes to concealing the differential impact of COVID, which has just found its first victims in the overcrowded refugee camps in Greece.
Authoritarianism, left unchecked to shape the public discourse, can self-propel and legitimise itself, diverting the blame for a degraded public health system from the state onto society.
