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Prisoner 951 review – this defiant Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama makes Britain look ridiculous

This tale of one family’s six-year ordeal just highlights what an unserious country Britain became in that era. The cast, including Joseph Fiennes, are excellent

The Guardian - UK

Prisoner 951 review – a harrowing and effective retelling of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s abduction

4/5 Narges Rashidi is brilliant at conveying the silent trauma that pervades this BBC drama series

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson had a four-day break in crucial period before Covid pandemic struck

The official records have raised questions over whether the former prime minister may have misled the Covid inquiry

The Independent UK

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Prisoner 951 on BBC One review: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's incarceration story is terrifying and infuriating

4/5 Warning: this show may induce new feelings of rage towards Boris Johnson

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system

Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings and refusal to apologise

Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column

The Independent UK

Johnson says Covid inquiry that criticised chaos in his government ‘muddled’

The former prime minister said the Hallett report should be ‘filed vertically’.

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‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger

He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’

The Guardian - UK

Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the Covid-19 inquiry: the UK did too little, too late. Lessons must be learned

Editorial: The latest report on the pandemic shows that grave failings were not limited to Boris Johnson. The government needs to prepare for the next crisis

The Guardian - UK

Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say

To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The Guardian - UK

Be careful what you feed your tortoise

Brief letters: Pets’ diets | Wales and England | The Covid report | Reaction to Boris Johnson | Good names

The Guardian - UK

Prisoner 951: how the show tackled its Boris Johnson problem

The then-Foreign Secretary comments on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe caused a diplomatic incident in 2017

Evening Standard

Voices: ‘We need leaders to lead’: Readers have their say on the UK’s delayed Covid pandemic response

YOUR VIEWS: Our community largely agreed with the Covid inquiry findings that Boris Johnson’s government was chaotic and poorly prepared, though many also stressed the broader context of conflicting scientific advice, years of underfunding, and systemic failings that compounded the crisis

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What is Dominic Cummings doing now?

With Boris Johnson’s former Chief Advisor back in the headlines, we look into what Cummings is doing now, and how his relationship with the former Prime Minister fell apart

The Guardian - UK

Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report

Campaign group says it will pursue all legal means to ensure personal accountability for ‘grave betrayal’

The Independent UK

Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a major corruption scandal, president says

Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down

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Boris Johnson could face legal action over pandemic failings after damning Covid inquiry report

Nadine Dorries and Michael Gove have led attempts to undermine the damning report by Heather Hallett after it found inaction by Boris Johnson’s government may have cost 23,000 people their lives

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Nearly 6,000 Londoners died due to Covid within weeks after 'deadly delay' in ordering lockdown

Boris Johnson’s government was slammed by the Covid Inquiry for its ‘chaos’ and the ‘toxic’ culture in No10

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: The end of the affair – why we’ve fallen out of love with the cinema

In today’s newsletter: Box office takings are tanking. Amid indulgent vanity products, endless sequels and the rise of streaming, how can Hollywood revive the magic?

The Guardian - UK

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say

Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

The Independent UK

This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW : Editorial: That 23,000 people in England alone lost their lives because of the dithering of the former leader is a fitting – and awful – denouement to the political career of a man who was never up to the job of prime minister

Evening Standard

Ten bombshell findings from damning Covid inquiry report - including that lockdown could have been avoided

The Standard has compiled the 10 most shocking revelations from Baroness Hallett’s Covid-19 inquiry report

Euronews

'Too little, too late': Former UK government slammed for its initial COVID-19 response

The inquiry found that chaos at the heart of the Conservative government and a failure to take COVID-19 seriously potentially cost 23,000 lives in England alone.

Evening Standard

'Lockdown may be only way to stop London NHS collapse in 15 days', Cummings warned Johnson as Covid virus spread

Details of fraught meetings at the heart of Government on how to protect the capital were laid bare in a damning report by the Covid Inquiry

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