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Wetherspoon’s returns to profit for first time since Covid pandemic
Cost of living crisis drives consumers to low-cost pub chain but company remains cautious JD Wetherspoon has bounced back to profit for the first time since the start of the…
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Disruptive behaviour in English schools worse since Covid, says outgoing Ofsted head
Amanda Spielman says children are walking out of class, or registering but not attending lessons Behaviour in schools in England has deteriorated since the pandemic, with pupils refusing to comply…
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Doctors started writing their wills in 2020, UK Covid inquiry told
Prof Philip Banfield says profession was ‘traumatised’ after events of pandemic, as he criticises government response Doctors started writing their wills and making sure their life insurance was up to…
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What’s the state of Covid in the UK – and how is it being tracked?
The UK Health Security Agency has stepped up infection monitoring in the run-up to winter As winter approaches, we take a look at efforts to track the impact of Covid…
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Children were failed by pandemic policies, Covid inquiry told
Young people’s needs were forgotten, with no one made responsible by UK government for ensuring their rights were met, says legal expert Children were disproportionately affected by pandemic policies, with…
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Boris Johnson’s decision-making was ‘bipolar’ during Covid, wrote Vallance
Chief scientific adviser in 2020 found the ex-PM ‘completely inconsistent’ in his evidence to the Covid inquiry Boris Johnson’s decision-making during the coronavirus pandemic was described as “bipolar” and “completely…
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Why is no one else worried about being sandwiched between naked people?
Germ warfare season is upon us. I, for one, don’t plan to get ill by squeezing past a pair of models at the Marina Abramović exhibition There has been a…
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Nobel Medicine Prize 2023: how Katalin Kariko helped pave way for Covid-19 vaccine discoveries
Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious US university. Now, her pioneering work has won her the Nobel Prize…
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A fresh take on reality may help us see public debates on the voice and Covid in a clearer light | Peter Lewis
After 14 October we will need a reboot to confront our unfinished business. Recognising different generational universes within our nation will be critical Follow our Australia news live blog for…
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Sunak fails to hand WhatsApp messages from time as chancellor to Covid inquiry
Exclusive: PM claims he has changed phone since running the Treasury and did not back up the messages Rishi Sunak has failed to hand over his WhatsApp messages from his…