As Britain’s death toll from Covid-19 passes 100,000, there is one burning question: why did so many have to die? Tom Clark, Gaby Hinsliff and Philip Ball chart the persistent failures—from both the chief scientists and the politicians. Former head of the Supreme Court Brenda Hale takes on the human rights sceptics and Rana Mitter asks whether China's grip on Hong Kong means the end of the historic freedoms in the city.
We can only be certain that this is an extremely complex issue—which could have disastrous political and economical consequences for Catalonia, the rest of Spain and the EU
May dragged the UK press pack to Florence in order to hear a speech which only mixed vacuity and arrogance with desperate, panglossian horizon-scanning
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