How will covid effect politics in the UK and internationally? An end to populism – or the ‘rise of the charlatan’? A resurgence of the left or an opportunity for an authoritarian power grab?
On March 25th 2021, the Pandemic Perspectives group invited PGR Feminisms to lead a session on ‘Covid and Feminisms’. Founded by Alice Seville and Marie Allegre (PhD literature researchers University of Birmingham) and co-ran with ...
During the pandemic, the British government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, both of which restricted the right of assembly and therefore the right to protest. In enforcing these restrictions, ...
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), was the head of the parliamentary communist group in Italy at the time of his arrest by Mussolini’s facist regime in 1926. Sentenced in 1928, Mussolini is reported as saying at his ...
As soon as effective vaccines began to emerge from the laboratories of pharmaceutical companies, probably the most important issue facing the world became how to ensure that access to life-saving medicine was available to all ...
To mitigate the spread of coronavirus, governments across the globe have rushed through legislation, or enacted emergency powers, granting them unprecedented control over the lives of their subject peoples. Whilst, even from the outset, some ...
After the failure at the pilot phase of the UK government’s first track and trace app, the new ‘NHS covid-19 Track and Trace App’, costing an estimated at £35 million, was launched nationwide on September ...
