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‘Burned out’, ‘fatigued’ and ‘desperately sad’ – NHS staff after year of Covid
“So we’re struggling and we’re trying to get through as much as we can every day, and our staff get a huge amount of abuse on the phone… people are really rude to our staff, really quite abusive."
Brexit: Northern Ireland Protocol ‘obstructs free movement of military’
“This shows how ludicrous and unacceptable the outworking of the Northern Ireland Protocol are in practice."
Billionaire hedge funder says paying his ‘fair share’ of tax is a ‘bullsh*t attack on the rich’
“It’s just a way of attacking wealthy people, and I think it’s inappropriate,” Leon Cooperman - who was convicted for insider trading in 2016 - said.
Dubai blamed for Covid cases abroad as social influencers in race to get back to UK
Today models and social media influencers are among thousands of British travellers facing a race home today to avoid being stranded in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
‘It’s a nightmare’ – Two thirds of London housing association’s UC claimants behind on rent
“I think you just put yourself into debt with Universal Credit.”
QAnon-supporting Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed deadly forest fire on ‘secret Jewish space laser’
Greene has frequently posted far-right extremism and debunked conspiracy theories on her social media pages.
Bankrupting a hedge fund: How micro-investors beat the mega-rich at their own game
Financial institutions lobby for loose rules that allow them to profit from crashing the system. But they don’t like it when it hurts their pockets.
Fourth Covid-19 vaccine set to be approved ‘within weeks’ with 60m doses on order
Clive Dix said the results were “spectacular”, adding: “The efficacy shown against the emerging variants is also extremely encouraging."
Man sentenced for spitting at Jeremy Corbyn’s face in ‘barrage of abuse’
The court heard the former plumber has previous convictions for assault, including an assault in 2017 on a journalist in Finsbury Park.