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Ben Wray is a freelance journalist from Scotland currently based in the Basque Country, Spain. He co-ordinates The Gig Economy Project, which supports the struggles of gig workers in Europe. He is co-author of The Two Souls of Scottish Independence, to be published by Verso in 2021.
The spread of Covid-19 across the world was facilitated by a globalised economy rigged in favour of big corporations – and the long-term consequences are likely to fall most severely on those it exploits: the countries of the Global South.
As wealthy families escape to their rural holiday homes, workers are forced to put themselves at risk to deliver them the goods they need to survive. Don’t let them tell you we’re all in it together.
This weekend’s fire in Bolton has exposed the dreadful quality of much of Britain’s student accommodation – a forest of plastic towers designed to maximise profit and minimise regulation.