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‘I was just so lonely’: students on mental health impact of Covid
Four university students in the UK reveal the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken More than half of students polled report mental health slump The Guardian spoke to four university…
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Daily Mail group executives could share £60m under new bonus scheme
Top four at DMGT also took home £24m despite profits slump amid Covid crisis Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The top executives at the owner of…
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The Guardian view on taxing the rich: chip in to help out | Editorial
A small one-off levy on wealth would be a much fairer way of paying for the Covid recession A funny thing happened in Buenos Aires last Friday: parliamentarians there voted…
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It was like the world was coming to an end. Everything was cancelled | Emmanuel Asante
When Covid hit and he lost his job, Emmanuel Asante worried how he would survive. He is one of a generation of young Australians whose lives are being shaped by…
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Only in Trump’s Operation Warped Reality is his vaccine leadership a success | Richard Wolffe
The president’s ‘vaccine summit’ was notable for its absentees amid revelations that he had spent $14bn on insufficient doses Donald Trump leaves office exactly how he entered it: catastrophically clueless…
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Under Boris Johnson, corruption is taking hold in Britain | Gina Miller
Cronyism is rife, our system of checks and balances is being dismantled, and ordinary people will soon start to suffer Many people view the government’s handling of Covid-19 and the…
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Angela Merkel gives impassioned call for tighter Covid restrictions – video
The usually calm and collected German chancellor, Angela Merkel, gave an impassioned appeal at the Bundestag for tighter coronavirus restrictions, as the country’s infection rate rose significantly. On 29 September there…
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Millions of people have fallen through the ‘safety net’. Here’s how to help them | Rebecca Long-Bailey
Supermarkets have just paid back their Covid handouts – why not divert this money to people in deep financial trouble? Throughout the pandemic, the government has demanded that its citizens…
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Coronavirus: Germany’s Angela Merkel backs tougher curbs as deaths hit record
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday demanded tougher curbs to bring down coronavirus infections, as the German death toll reached a daily record of nearly 600 people.Germany has ordered far less…
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Philippine minister Ramon Lopez announces new coronavirus measures – then admits he is infected
A Philippine government minister spent more than an hour in an online briefing painting a rosy picture of the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic before admitting that he himself…