Big Pharma’s Obscene Profits, Not Striking Nurses, Are Killing the NHS
Monopoly pricing and corporate greed are destroying healthcare systems in the UK and globally.
Health Workers in UK Intensify Their Fight for Fair Wages and Dignity
Underpaid and overworked, workers of the UK’s National Health Service are demanding a wage hike on par with inflation. Both nurses and ambulance workers went on strike in recent days.
Under Rishi Sunak, Britons Are Set To Face More Austerity, Fewer Rights
The former chancellor from the ruling Conservative Party is the UK’s third prime minister this year. Sunak’s policy history and present cabinet appointments have raised fears of even more austerity…
Luring Doctors From Poorer Countries is the UK’s Quiet Scandal
By Patrick Cockburn / CounterPunch The looting of artistic and religious objects from Africa and Asia by British invaders in the 19th century causes much rancorous debate about whether the…
Biden’s Failure to Provide At-Home Covid Tests Looks Extra Ridiculous Arriving From the U.K.
Why is the Biden administration only now making rapid antigen tests available for free when the British government has been doing so for months?
The U.K.’s New COVID-19 Strain and Boris Johnson’s Bloody Blunders
The British prime minister’s pre-Christmas announcement that a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is ripping through England is as shocking as it is maddening.