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

Findings come from the NIH-backed RECOVER Initiative.

Should fans take Jungle Cruise 2 for granite?

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

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

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

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

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

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