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Exclusive: almost 46m masks turned out to be unusable after $100m in contracts were awarded to company with little apparent pre-pandemic experience in PPE supply

Across the country craft breweries are entering administration, hit by Covid-era debts, excise tax and rising costs

Former head of the Cabinet Office Covid-19 taskforce Simon Ridley became the latest top official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe this week.

From sex scandals to alleged arson, the former culture secretary’s new book is not short of explosive claims, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Simon Ridley also claimed he was “blindsided” by Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme

The share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency – sometimes or often not having enough food to eat – fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found in a new study published in the November 2023 issue of Food Policy.

Covid investigation also told taskforce coordinating pandemic policy had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’

Simon Ridley became the latest senior official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe.

Natasha Hamilton was giving evidence to the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday.

WeWork, the desk renting company co-founded by Adam Neumann, has filed for bankruptcy in order to deal with its $13 billion in outstanding lease obligations. The group, which was once valued at $47 billion, saw its meteoric rise thwarted in 2019 when its heavy losses were exposed and during the…

I recognise this from my time in cabinet, says Justine Greening, former education secretary