Employers must stop penalising women for having children
Why extending redundancy protections for expectant mothers and new parents is long overdue.
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Covid-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus Sars-Cov-2, which caused a global pandemic from early 2020, necessitating national lockdowns and a huge vaccination programme. Read all of our latest coverage below.
China’s economy will rebound. But for how long?
A falling population and the political scars from its zero Covid policy present warning signs for China.
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Andrew Bridgen isn’t the only conspiracy theorist when it comes to the NHS
When things go wrong, we are all primed to go looking for someone to blame.
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Andrew Bridgen is the sign of a new conspiracist conservatism
It’s vital for the persecution complex of a modern right that has lost the zeitgeist.
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Austria’s flailing mainstream parties are boosting the far right
Surging inflation and immigration anxieties are benefiting the country’s Freedom Party once again.
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Inside China’s Covid crisis
Cases have surged as China ends its strict lockdowns, while a Ukraine missile attack on New Year’s Day kills dozens…
What China’s devastating Covid outbreak means for the rest of the world
The true scale of the country’s current wave and the failures of its “zero Covid” policy pose a threat to…
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In January, I made ten predictions for 2022 – how did they turn out?
The New Statesman’s Writer-at-Large reviews what he got right and wrong about the past year.
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