If only Jeremy Corbyn had won the December 2019 general election, the Covid-19 crisis would have been entirely different.  At least, that is what the Facebook sages on the left of the political spectrum are currently claiming.  This, though is just the usual political theatre in which the red team …

In 1965 a group of psychologists studying conditioning in dogs stumbled across what they were to call “learned helplessness.”  In their experiment, they took a puppy and put it in a cage.  Once the puppy got used to his surroundings, the experimenters rang a bell.  So the puppy thinks to …

The warm sunny days leading up to the Easter holidays are quickly fading from memory.  Then, despite the threat of a global pandemic, there was optimism in the air.  People came together in a manner not seen since the neoliberals seized the reins of power in the 1980s.  It was …

If you thought you were having a Déjà vu experience this weekend, it might be because you’ve been reading about Remdesivir; the proprietary drug that its sponsors are desperate to convince you is a cure for the Covid-19 pandemic.  The reason why media coverage of this drug should be ringing …

In the early 1940s, my dear departed mother had all of her teeth removed in a single sitting.  Even by the standards of today’s NHS dental service – which is a pale shadow of the comprehensive pre-Thatcher service – the reasons for this will be considered barbaric.  My mother had …

New Zealand has put a stop to community transmission of SARS-Cov-2; Yeah!  It is a victory of sorts, and one which was hard won.  As the BBC explain: “The country brought in some of the toughest restrictions in the world on travel and activity early on in the pandemic, when …

At 11.00am on 3 September 1939 Britain declared war on Nazi Germany.  Within minutes the air raid sirens started wailing.  Panicked civilians reached for the gas masks they had been issued with, and desperately sought shelter from the anticipated onslaught.  A few – mainly middle class suburbanites with gardens, who …

One person is responsible for the devastating spread of Covid-19 through your community.  That person is YOU!  That, at least, is the line that the establishment media has been taking from the very beginning.  As each new problem – largely the result of a failure of planning by the government …

Sunday’s Guardian editorial is no doubt correct when it says that: “It’s too soon to say with any confidence what impact coronavirus will have on the climate emergency. The brakes placed on economic activities of many kinds, worldwide, have led to carbon emission cuts that would previously have been unthinkable: …

You might be forgiven for thinking that the world is in the grip of a SARS-Cov-2 pandemic crisis.  That is only partially true, though.  The real crisis is in the neoliberal system which left us so desperately unprepared to meet what was a known threat.  The UK government’s own Operation …