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Twitter reacts as Laurence Fox launches election campaign with a big red bus
"The year is 2036. Laurence Fox is still a guide on his open top tour bus. Where he drives around London pointing out film locations he wasn’t talented enough to be on."
Watch – Developers slammed after setting ‘death traps’ for birds using netting to stop them nesting
"The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has criticised the move as well as local residents who have branded the practice "cruel" and unnecessary".
Cressida Dick claims ‘social media pile-on’ damaged confidence in police after Clapham vigil
The Met chief said critics of the police handling of the Sarah Everard vigil spoke “without knowing the facts".
Watch – ‘Do the rules still work?’ Blistering Maitlis takes on Arcuri and Greensill Tory scandals
In her introduction on Tuesday, the Newsnight host asked why politicians are no longer held to account.
Beer bracelet? Sobriety ankle tags introduced for criminals who commit alcohol-fuelled crimes
“Tagging them simply stigmatises them drinking alcohol and doesn’t address the root cause of the problem."
‘Poverty shame’ resulting in £18 billion of benefits going unclaimed every year
One person told TLE: “I felt like I wasn’t even treated like a human being" when they claimed.
Laurence Fox has a campaign bus – and it is as bad as you think
The Reclaim Party leader drove past the London mayor as he kicked off his campaign, yelling: "Sadiq, I’m taking your house, mate."
Global treaty needed to prevent next pandemic, world leaders warn
Twenty-four world leaders, including Boris Johnson and his French and German counterparts Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, have put their names to a call for such a treaty.
Cameron ‘camped under the stars’ with Saudi crown prince and Greensill
The trip is believed to have taken place at the beginning of 2020; roughly 16 months after Saudi Arabia ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khasoggi.