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Downing Street is reportedly planning to crack down on “frivolous” coronavirus tests as England’s ten worst Covid hotspots face a total dearth of testing supplies.An investigation by LBC Radio found that walk-in, drive through and home tests were all unavailable in the areas with the highest infection rates: Bolton, Salford, Bradford, Blackburn, Oldham,…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Daniel Finkelstein in The Timeson a bad ally for BritainWhy Tories should hope that Trump loses“Donald Trump is not — he cannot be — the Conservative candidate in November’s presidential…

Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, holds up some of the 31,000 letters as they call on Saudi Arabia to free Raif Badawi as protesters take part in a rally outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Ottawa on Monday, November 2, 2015. A prominent human rights organization…

In the third edition of the college-level textbook Macroeconomics, the economists Andrew Abel and future Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blithely assert that “since the earliest times almost all societies … have used money.” They say that money arises from the inefficiency of barter—of trading one good for another—because “finding…

From windows and rooftops through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions around the world cheered essential workers on the front lines who daily risked contracting this highly contagious disease. Janitors, grocery store workers, drivers, warehouse workers, letter carriers, food delivery people, teachers and transit workers, along with the doctors,…

Face for social change for the longest time, Raveena Tandon has now joined the likes of Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood, R Balki, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Imtiaz Ali, Nandita Das and many more to show support to the human right she feels is most important. Present on the Born Free &…

Summer is coming to an end and too many Canadian politicians are pushing through plans to reopen schools despite the dangers posed COVID-19 -- dangers compounded by decades of cuts and infrastructural decay. Are we ready to go back? What are the administrators, students, teachers, education assistants, school custodial and administrative staff working…

No longer renascent and localised, Afrobeats is experiencing a worldwide takeover - the Pan-African movement perennially championed by one force of nature in particular. Standing at the intersection between the Afrobeats/Afroswing movements popularized by artists from the West African diaspora in the UK and the cornucopia of regional sounds birthed…

NurPhoto/Getty Employment in the UK dropped by the most since 2009, signalling that more pain may lay ahead for British-based workers, data released Tuesday showed. The number of UK employees on payrolls fell in July by 730,000 from March, when the COVID-19 crisis had just begun. "The alarm bells couldn't…

A child worker pushes a cart with bricks in Meerut city, India. File photo: EPAIndia has more than 56 million children out of school, according to a 2018 study Activists fear children may be used as a stopgap measure to fill jobs left vacant by migrant labourers who returned to…