Over the past few months, key workers have been applauded, cheered and revered as heroes. They have kept the country ticking over during the coronavirus crisis. By differentiating minimum wages between industries, key workers’ could receive the pay rise they…
Recent headlines warning that nurseries face ‘mass closures’ as a result of the coronavirus pandemic should be a cause for concern for society at large. Regardless of whether an individual has nursery-age children, the current existential threat to the early-years…
This article has been written by Maddie Grounds who is a specialist content writer andcorrespondent for the Immigration Advice Service; an organisation of UK immigrationlawyers. For the majority of the British public, leading a new life of normality thankfully no…
When the UK entered lockdown in March, we were perhaps naïve to think this would be a short-term problem. It wasn’t until the weeks dragged on, with every daily briefing becoming more dire with every new slide, that the full…
A global pandemic in the current digital age is a recipe for disaster. Government transparency is not necessarily threatened by the internet or the nature of social media spreading so-called “fake news”. Rather, the lack of government transparency causes more…
While the focus of the news this past week has been very much placed on Dominic Cummings, and his lack of penalisation by the Prime Minister, there’s been another issue that’s starting to reveal itself. In the Liaison Committee, Caroline…
Across the UK, people’s daily lives have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Though they have been eased slightly in recent weeks, the lockdown is still in place, and scientists are clear that social distancing and the lockdown measures introduced…
By using the government’s coronavirus response as a blueprint for tackling the climate crisis the government can instil social and economic change that will cement Britain as a global leader in tackling climate change. Both the coronavirus pandemic and the…
While there has been a broadly similar reaction from nation states to the COVID-19 panic, one that has seen vast swathes of the global population put under a form of house arrest, the path taken to remedy the economic harm…