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  • Former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn meeting with members of Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI)

    On the coming of age

    Old age and the ageing process cannot be divorced from the system as a whole, writes Jane Shallice

  • NHS workers at a socially distanced protest in Sheffield, holding signs asking for better pay

    Collective safety for all – resisting Long COVID

    As more and more people are forced to grapple with Long COVID, Alex Heffron argues nurses organising can play a crucial role in resisting the normalisation of mass sickness

  • A stock photo of a therapist with a patient

    Key words: Magical voluntarism

    In our continuing series on neoliberalism, Ieuan Pugh explains how its individualist ideology shapes ideas about mental health

  • Illustration by Laurence Ware depicting a scene of covid lockdown and social distancing

    Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left

    Reflecting on two years of Covid-19, James Meadway lays out the challenges the British left will have to adapt to and confront

  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

  • A Marks and Spencer supermarket checkout with a COVID-19 social distancing sign in the foreground

    An update from till two

    In ‘The view from till two’, published on the Red Pepper website in November 2020, retail worker Tillie described her experiences of the pandemic. Here, she reflects on two years dominated by Covid – and considers what lies ahead

  • Image of human embryo 7-8 weeks from conception

    GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?

    Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes David King

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