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Tommy Robinson to find out whether Syrian teenager has won libel claim
If Jamal Hijazi wins the claim he should receive damages between £150,000 and £190,000.
‘Pack your bongo and get out’: Australia orders deportation of Katie Hopkins
Australia's deputy prime minister said he has "no problem sending home someone who wants to flout our laws."
Harding insists Test & Trace was a success so why won’t Govt publish records of meetings with Covid firms?
"You appoint your friends to key public sector posts - with predictably disastrous public health consequences. And then you refuse to disclose who they are meeting with? Who are they actually governing for?"
‘Insult’: Demands increase for a long-awaited pay rise for NHS workers
“Staff who’ve done so much during the pandemic are being treated as an afterthought while MPs head off on their holidays, and infections are rising, which means pressure is piling back on the whole health team once again."
Farage announced new job but suggestions for role he deserved were better
"You finally made head racist," wrote one person
The harshest reactions to Boris Johnson’s self-isolation u-turn farce
"The UK Government is like the greatest ‘The Thick of It’ episode of all time," wrote one twitter user.
Economist suing Cambridge Uni ‘for turning him down for job due to belief that big banks are a cancer on society’
Judge Manley said: "I am satisfied that the belief that 'big banks are a cancer on society' can amount to a philosophical belief..."
PingU-turn? Humiliation for Johnson and Sunak who will now self isolate after outrage
the pair dramatically U-turned and said they would isolate after all - just one hour and 38 minutes after announcing they would not.
Richard Branson went into near space and few people cared – reactions to send him into orbit
"Branson last year: Yeah, listen I need a couple of billion for my airline cause I'm skint. Branson now: I'm off to space in my rocket ship. See you later, ya bunch of dicks!"