Some changes, like the plight of the high street, can be anticipated, while others will be surprising, writes Hamish McRae @TheIndyBusiness 1 day ago To travel in one’s own quiet, […]
Source: Al Hakam By Asif M Basit In the last few weeks – now slowly turning into months – everyone around the world has had a set of words and […]
By Grégoire Barbey May 5, 2020 – swissinfo.ch The endless queues for food bags in Geneva show that while the health crisis seems to be subsiding, the economic crisis has […]
For those rallying on the streets of Tripoli, the certainty of dying from starvation is far more pressing than the probability of contracting coronavirus, says Bel Trew @beltrew 14 minutes […]
Apr 28, 2020 – An online Ramadan bazaar trader wraps “Popiah” spring rolls at his home, during the movement control order due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — picture of Spanish Flue In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks. Yet here we are again, face-masked to […]
Source: The Guardian New data shows families go without as parents lose income, meal voucher scheme is beset with problems and food banks can’t cope By Nosheen Iqbal; @nosheeniqbal The […]
Observer editorial 3 hrs ago Dramatic falls in global oil prices are the result, primarily, of collapsing demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Other factors predating the crisis are also […]
“The sanctions are illegitimate in the first place, and maintaining them during the pandemic is sheer sadism,” Chomsky told IRNA in an interview published on Saturday. Speaking from his […]
Source: SAMAA | Zulqarnain Iqbal – Posted: Apr 11, 2020 | Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri has said that the decision on whether or not this year’s Hajj […]
Johnson and his acolytes will announce victory, but this will be untrue. Britons will still be dying with Covid-19, but their deaths will have become normal Robert Fisk @indyvoices 18 […]
Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump has destroyed the country he promised to make great again Source: The Irish Times Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very […]
In all the uncountable articles on the present economic crisis unleashed due to the covid-19 pandemic I find the above the most interesting. We purchase only what we need – […]
By George Monbiot for THE GUARDIAN This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers ‘Governments […]
If employers know that the government’s payroll support will be suddenly cut off at the end of June it’s inevitable that many will be thinking of starting to shed staff now https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-uk-job-cuts-furlough-unemployment-redundant-treasury-a9489881.html?jwsource=cl (video link) Ben Chu @Benchu_ 12 hours ago The historian AJP Taylor argued that the […]
Whether it’s helping research a vaccine or supporting those worst hit by the pandemic, private giving is needed as never before Beth Breeze and Paul Ramsbottome 28 Apr 2020 […]
26th April 2020 Shahzeb Athar, Jamia Ahmadiyya UK The world as we know it has drastically taken a turn into unprecedented waters, a turn so uncharted that the entire economic outlook seems dire and calamitous. I, nevertheless, deem it quite hard to believe that anyone could have predicted an […]
by Andrew Anthony, The Guardian When eventually the coronavirus crisis begins to recede and we return to an approximation of normality – no matter how socially distanced or how much […]
What is remarkable is how quickly the bonds of employer and employee are severed in the American economy, and how quickly businesses — but not their employees — get handouts […]
RIYADH: King Salman has ordered the partial lifting of a curfew across Saudi Arabia, with the exception of the holy city of Makkah and adjacent places previously isolated after a […]