Since mid-August, as many people in the UK have been dying from Covid every 2 weeks as usually die from flu in a year: that’s approximately 1,400...
The number of people in the UK who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 has risen to 97,936 , and will pass 100,000 in a few days. There...
Boris Johnson and his Tory colleagues are playing a game that is doomed to fail where the twin threats of the Covid pandemic and Brexit are...
As I write , the UK’s death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic has reached 38,489. Even the rightwing Financial Times regards this figure as an...
I am in New Delhi, attending a conference. The conference was originally due to take place at the Muslim-majority Jamia Millia Islamia University....
Formally, BoJo’s Brexit got ‘done’ at 11pm on Friday, 31 January. The impression that Brexitannia is now no longer a member of the EU is...
The various statistical analyses of the UK general election result have been coming in, and they allow some interesting and perhaps important...
The scale of the Tory victory in the UK general election last week is known to all who read a half-decent newspaper or news site — the biggest...
Trump sent his national security adviser John “Bonkers” Bolton to London, where the neocon Bonkers could hang out with Trump’s pal BoJo...
The late Uri Avnery , the doughty Israeli seeker of peace with the Palestinian people, posted almost weekly on CounterPunch. Avnery was savvy enough...
Adam Tooze’s magnificently panoramic 'Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World' is required reading for every individual...
Last week Theresa May announced that the UK was preparing for a ‘hard’ Brexit, meaning that the UK had given up any notion of retaining...
