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Today's newsletter was going to focus on Matt Hancock, who is appearing in front of the Covid-19 Inquiry, to discuss his role as health secretary during the pandemic. But events have superseded that.

MacGowan won fame for incorporating traditional Irish ballads into Britain’s punk scene in the 1980s and 90s.

‘We cannot allow antisemitism to win in Britain’ Andrew Rosindell said after Havering Council’s decision

When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would arrive in Britain via the same process.

Elton John has urged British lawmakers to do more to fight HIV and AIDS

Far from freeing the UK from continental insecurities, Brexit has made some of them worse. Isolationism won’t help, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Yang Guang and Tian Tian have lived at zoo in Scotland since 2011

Opposition vows to tackle rural connection delays to the grid while Conservatives call for offshore network to preserve landscapes

Rishi Sunak is under fire over a last-minute snub to the Greek PM on the Elgin Marbles issue which led to the Greek PM returning to Greece without discussing issues like illegal immigration and Gaza.