Portrait of the week
Portrait of the Week
Home The government contemplated its promised Planning Bill, blamed for contributing to the astonishing victory for the Liberal Democrat Sarah…
Portrait of the Week
Home The lifting of coronavirus restrictions was delayed from 21 June until 19 July, probably. The motive was to avoid…
Portrait of the Week
Home The government pondered delaying the end of coronavirus restrictions on 21 June. But Chris Hopson, the chief executive of…
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Home Freelance scientists urged the government not to end coronavirus regulations on 21 June, for fear of a third wave.…
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Home The BBC was engulfed in doubts after a report by Lord Dyson blamed Martin Bashir for deceiving the late…
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Home The government made noises about having to delay the lifting of coronavirus restrictions on 21 June in some parts…
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Home A new complexion of British politics was revealed by the capture of Hartlepool by Jill Mortimer for the Conservatives…
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Home ‘I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the one-metre-plus from 21 June,’…
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Home By the beginning of the week, 12,071,810 people had received both doses of coronavirus vaccine, and the proportion of…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced the hunt was on for two effective pills to treat Covid, to be…
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Home The Duke of Edinburgh, who was married to the Queen for 73 years, died at Windsor Castle, aged 99.…
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Home The government sketched a scheme for a coronavirus passport, or ‘Covid status certification’, to be tried out at the…
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Home More than 30 million had received their first dose vaccination. The government remained confident of supplying second doses and…
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Home The nation was surprised to learn that from 29 March there would be a dearth of vaccine for a…
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Home A Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who…
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Home The world was agog, some in tears, some in synchronised toe-curling, as the Duchess of Sussex and her husband…
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Home First-dose coronavirus vaccinations totalled more than 20 million. A study suggested that in the over-eighties, a single dose of…
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Home The much-anticipated decriminalisation of two consenting people meeting over coffee on a park bench was declared for 8 March…
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Home The target was achieved of vaccinating, by the middle of February, about 15 million people of 70 or over,…
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Home On Sunday 7 February, as the week began, 11,465,210 people in the United Kingdom had received a first vaccination…
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Home About 80,000 people in eight places in Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked in door-to-door visits…
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Home Supplies of the Pfizer vaccine (made in Belgium) were feared to be at risk from a declaration by the…
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Home The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September.…
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Home The government, in the face of overwhelming numbers of people with Covid-19 being admitted to hospital, told everyone to…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced harsher coronavirus restrictions in England, resembling those last March, except that bubbles continued.…
