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The week in Covid-19.
Today’s front pages.
Vaccination: Facts really matter.
How much better would UK politics be with PR?
Police & Crime Bill shelved – All oppositions ought now to unite.
Are you ready to give up your right to protest?
Sarah Everard vigil shows the urgent need to protect the right to protest.
Policing Bill – We MUST be able to complain, loudly, in public.
Refugees: Safety is a subjective matter.
Never think your country can’t end up becoming an authoritarian nation.
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UK COVID-19 Data: 24 March 2021.
Vaccination: Facts really matter.
How the pandemic is shaping voting intentions in the UK.
AstraZeneca vaccine: How to fix supply issues.
COVID-19: Virus variants, vaccine inequity, contribute to rising caseload.
Brazil coronavirus variant: What is it and why is it a concern? An expert explains.
Coronavirus: Here’s what happens when we test lots of people as cases are falling.
Coronavirus one year on: Two countries that got it right, and three that got it wrong.
What happens when a person is simultaneously infected with two coronavirus variants?
Vaccine nationalism will block our path out of the pandemic – so how do we resist our tribal instinct?
How the pandemic is shaping voting intentions in the UK.
Mark Rutte wins another term but fragmented results mask continuing popularity of the far right.
Why has nationalist support fallen?
Census 2021 will reveal how a year of lockdowns and furlough has transformed the UK.
Um. Hello? [waves]
Latin America: Inequality and political instability have lessons for the rest of the world.
Fisking Frost.
Sarah Everard: Social media and the very real danger of contempt of court.
Danone’s CEO has been ousted for being progressive – Blame society not activist shareholders.
EU citizens: How to report issues with your status in the UK.
Boris Johnson may soon have the power to call elections whenever he wants.
Vaccination isn’t behind the fall in Covid-19 infections. The lockdown is.
Act like you’re carrying a dangerous coronavirus mutation – because you might be.
Eight children killed this month, as fighting intensifies in Yemen.