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Facebook and Instagram ‘indefinitely’ ban Trump as Iraq issues him with arrest warrant
Mark Zuckerberg said that the president had used the platforms to “incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government".
NHS Trusts pocketed £90 million from staff car parking in pandemic year
Hard-up nurses, cleaners and midwifes were forced to shell out up to £2.50 an hour just to park at work, says GMB Union.
Homelessness campaigners lash out at ministers for stopping life-saving scheme
“People will die – there’s no doubt about that. There will literally be blood on Tories’ hands."
Trump riots: ‘I wasn’t with those freaks’ Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay responds to MAGA fan comparison
“Good morning world. Now some of you may be thinking you saw me in Washington last night but I’m afraid I wasn’t with all those freaks.”
UK politicians warned of ‘armed insurrection’ after Trump ‘incites’ Capitol building riots
“They’re very similar narratives that align with everything that’s happening with Brexit. And there are these groups all over the internet across the UK and Europe. So it’s certainly not just a US issue.”
‘Like The Thick of It’: Hancock promotes Oxford jab – at GP yet to receive it
Hancock said the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was now being supplied to GP practices across the country - except, apparently, the one he visited.
‘Marched up to the top of the hill on this’ as Brexit paperwork ‘overwhelming’ in Northern Ireland
“You cannot simply wish away friction and administration when you implement customs controls anywhere in the world.”
‘Nationalism has consequences’ as patients rejected Pfizer vaccine to wait for ‘English’ jab, warns doctor
“People at risk of death in the depths of a pandemic. A lesson that Nationalism has consequences.”
London “days away” from running out of hospital beds – Mayor
One in 30 people in the capital are thought to have been infected with the virus.