Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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We have to crush the virus. There can be no return to normal without it
Without a zero-Covid approach, the outlook is for a rising death toll, further economic damage and terrible knock-on effects on public health and education, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Mologic Laboratory in the Bedford technology Park in Bedfordshire
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
THE whirlwind of devastating news is blowing away all illusions that the virus is under control and that we will soon be able to return to normal.
The government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said that “we don’t have this under control at the moment.”
A series of partial restrictions and the absence of a fully effective trace, track and isolate system is not going to bring that about.
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