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National Covid Memorial Wall. Photo: Matt Brown / CC BY 2.0

The pandemic that changed our lives: 5 years on

No to Starmer’s warfare state – Counterfire freesheet April 2025

The National COVID memorial wall in London. Photo: Kelly Foster / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-4.0

Covid Inquiry: How not to learn the lessons of the pandemic

Diners at a restaurant in London in August 2020, when the Eat Out to Help Out scheme was in place. Source: Garry Knight – Wikicommons / cropped from original CC BY 2.0

A failure of state: the damning verdict of Covid Inquiry

Why the bodies piled high: reviews of Terina Hine, A People’s History of Covid

The old put out to die: A People’s History of Covid Extract – extract

Preconditions for disaster: A People’s History of Covid – extract

Boris Johnson visit’s SureScreen Diagnostics in Derby during lockdown, 2021. Photo: Andrew Parsons / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED

The Covid Inquiry shows the Conservative Government was a tragedy, not a farce

Boris Johnson is joined by Rishi Sunak (middle) and Matt Hancock after a press conference on the Coronavirus inside No10 Downing Street. Source: Andrew Parsons – Number 10 – Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Boris’s homicidal Covid government

Prime Minister Boris Johnson at one of the gatherings at which some attendees breached COVID-19 regulations. The other participants were made unidentifiable by Sue Gray in this image. Source: No 10 Official Photographer – Wikicommon / cropped from original / shared under license OGL 3

Partygate: Be merry, for today other people die

World Health Organization logo. Photo: United States Mission Geneva / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0

Preparing for the next pandemic (or not)

Food stalls in Schenzen. Source: QuantFoto – Flickr / Shared as orginal on black background / shared under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / license linked below

Protest and dissent race through China

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