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The NEU union’s joint general secretary Mary Bousted said the strategy meant “risks” to health and was a “disaster”. She added that government guidance on social distancing is “impossible” in schools.

The growing furore over Dominic Cummings finally forced the Labour Party to at least show some sort of opposition to the Tories. 

“People will have to make their minds up” about Dominic Cummings, said Boris Johnson this week.

Dominic Cummings and many of his newfound critics in the mainstream media have far more in common than they like to pretend. 

The fallout from the Dominic Cummings scandal has sent a shockwave through British politics. It comes at a pivotal moment in the coronavirus pandemic in Britain. 

The Prime Minister defended Dominic Cummings after his top aid showed him the pictures of whatever it is that he has on Boris Johnson.

French health workers are demanding that “we don’t go back to how it was before”—and want fundamental changes in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

Police are investigating the deaths of three women at a care home at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak on the Isle of Skye.

Boris Johnson said on Sunday that the Tories would push ahead with plans to get more children in schools from Monday of next week

Alexander Hamilton, one of the brilliant group of “founding fathers” of the United States and its first finance minister, was once remembered mainly because he was killed in a duel by vice president Aaron Burr in 1804.

We are not “all in this together”. Covid-19 is not some great equaliser that brings everyone together, but rather a crisis that is deepening the fissures in an already unequal society.

Brazil’s soaring cases of coronavirus, and growing splits in Jair Bolsonaro’s government, are shaking the foundations of the far right president’s rule.