
China builds 1,500-room isolation ward in just 5 DAYS over new coronavirus spike in Hebei province (VIDEO)
Chinese city of Nangong has completed construction of a massive 1,500-room observation ward in just 5 days after a local outbreak of coronavirus was detected. Some 5,000 more rooms are expected to be completed next More...

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard quits just hours after wealthy potential donors pressure Keir Starmer to remove him
The leader of Scottish Labour, Richard Leonard, has dramatically resigned from his post tonight just hours after the Labour leader Keir Starmer, alongside Deputy leader Angela Rayner, held a conference call with More...

Student Rent Strikers Don’t Just Want a Refund – They Want to Smash Capitalism
When universities resumed teaching in September, many institutions encouraged or even demanded that students return in person, despite Covid-19 restrictions making much of student life impossible. While the first More...

See the food football fans’ initiative is providing to poor people for just £3.50 – and how you can help, or get help
Fans Supporting Foodbanks ‘Mobile Pantry’ scheme is letting those on poor incomes access a healthy diet for barely a tenth of the cost the government is paying firms to provide a few scraps The government More...

Ayatollah still can tweet? Trump supporters point fingers at Iran’s leader… just as he runs into trouble with platform too
Bemoaning Donald Trump’s Twitter ban, many of the US president’s supporters and other proponents of free speech have pointed fingers at messages from Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accusing the platform More...

‘We’ve just seen confidence in democracy being shattered’: UK Home Secretary condemns the ‘terrible’ violence on Capitol Hill
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has blasted US President Trump saying his comments directly led to the violence that took place in Washington, adding he didn’t do enough to de-escalate the situation. Speaking More...

Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started
On Sunday morning, as Boris Johnson was telling Andrew Marr that “schools are safe” from coronavirus and that “the risk to staff is very small”, teachers and governors at Marner Primary School in Tower More...

‘Not just a visa issue’: China says ‘preparatory work’ needed for WHO visit to trace Covid-19 pandemic origin
Beijing has said its health authorities are not yet in a position to receive a delegation from the WHO, after the world health body’s boss said he was “very disappointed” China hasn’t granted entry to More...

The Tories don’t care about students: Erasmus is just another example
Students will need to continue the fight for education as a right, argues Lucy Nichols Counterfire Daily More...

EU leaders sign Brexit trade deal, manuscript on its way to London as MPs set to debate 1,246-page text for just 5 hours
Leaders of the European Union have signed the long-awaited Brexit trade deal agreed with Britain and sent the text off to London for UK PM Boris Johnson to sign, hoping for “a new chapter in relations.” European More...