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https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-johnson-to-call-on-eu-leaders-to-veto-coronavirus-vaccine-export-blocks-12253288 /// European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted over the weekend...
The Brexit bus has well and truly crashed. The £3,500 million a week for the NHS hasn't materialised in spite of the Covid crisis, and now the PM has to go begging to the EU for vaccine supplies - so...
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/hundreds-protesters-take-newcastle-city-20225754 Forget your summer holidays. A 4th surge with inevitable lockdown is a racing certainty despite...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56479462 Among all the stupidity and tit-for-tat games being played out in the EU, Prof. Sarah Gilbert and her team should be proud of themselves for developing an...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liverpool-city-council-government-jenrick-corruption-b1820143.html ....the shadow of Degsy seems to persist in the city. Does anyone on here live in...
a point of law..mmm i think the cut is great, better still scrap it altogether.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13860735/foreign-aid-budget-cut-unlawful/...
The Resolution Foundation has estimated in its report on the first year of the pandemic in the UK that the delay in introducing the winter lockdown caused 27,000 extra deaths and that delays to...
will it still happen i wonder going on the new lockdown restrictions across France, Poland and Gerrmany i believe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56466223...
catches Gerry Ford disease. Could happen to anyone but will played over and over for eternity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-56462824...
I only became aware of this today, that the government has voter ID plans whereby in order to vote at polling stations, voters will be required to show official photo ID (such as a passport, driver’s...
....If you had a chance, what would you say to the thousands of people from Africa, Asia, the Middle East etc., who are prepared to risk everything on perilous journeys, to gain illegal access to the...
We are testing more people so the figures are bound to rise. Surely only hospitalisations and deaths are the only numbers we should be concerned about which are falling due to the vaccine....
Naga Munchetty is in trouble (again) from the BBC tin-hat execs for a sneering attitude shown to Robert Jenrick for displaying a Union Jack in his office, as if he was an American senator or...