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‘People will die anyway’: Pressure on Boris Johnson over Covid messages

Inquiry told of comments made by former prime minister during meeting discussing pandemic response

The Guardian - UK

‘Matthew Perry took me to AA’ – why saving people mattered more to the star than Friends

The actor spent so much of his life caring for others, from setting up a sober-living facility to fundraising for Covid with T-shirts that read: ‘Could I BE any more vaccinated?’

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson ‘mad’ if he did not realise Covid WhatsApps would become public, Simon Case said

The comments were made in WhatsApp messages between Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and then-principal private secretary Martin Reynolds

Evening Standard

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Johnson ‘mad’ if he did not realise Covid WhatsApps would become public – Case

Former top aide Martin Reynolds described the role played by Dominic Cummings in Downing Street in the early days of pandemic preparations.

The Independent UK

The pets I’ll never forget: Pudding and Popcorn, the guinea pigs who saved me during lockdown

I met the boys in London before moving to the country. As I struggled with isolation and depression, they were my lifeline. You could say I rescued them, then they rescued me

The Guardian - UK

Watch live: Boris Johnson’s former aides give evidence to Covid inquiry

Watch live as Boris Johnson's former aides give evidence to the Covid inquiry on Monday, 29 October.

The Independent UK

I found the perfect game to play while laid up with Covid – or so I thought

The plague finally caught up with me – so of course I passed the time banished to the basement playing a contagiously fun game about spreading a plague

The Guardian - UK

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My year as a digital nomad looked perfect online. The reality? Lost luggage and no days off

The reality of a country-hopping career is the worst of all worlds, says journalist and author Francesca Specter

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cummings expected to stick boot into old boss Boris Johnson in Halloween Covid inquiry grilling

Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, and former communications chief Lee Cain, are set to give evidence at the inquiry this week

Evening Standard

Covid inquiry live: Boris Johnson’s pandemic response was ‘Trump-level mad and dangerous’

Comes as former principal private secretary confirms report found ‘significant degree of misogyny’ in government

The Independent UK

Chris Whitty referred to ‘Eat out to help out’ as ‘Eat out to help out the virus’, UK Covid inquiry told – as it happened

UK’s chief medical officer said to have attacked Treasury scheme launched by Rishi Sunak that subsidised meals out in August 2020

The Guardian - UK

Covid Inquiry: Who is ‘Party Marty’ Martin Reynolds and what did he do?

The prime minister’s principal private secretary emailed colleagues inviting them to a socially-distanced drinks event ‘to make the most of the lovely weather’

The Independent UK

Bombshell week for Boris Johnson as former team prepare for Covid Inquiry

The former prime minister’s top aides will be grilled over decision-making in Downing Street during the pandemic

The Independent UK

UK Covid inquiry reaches week of potentially damning testimony

Dominic Cummings will testify, plus senior aides and civil servants known to the public because of illicit parties

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Vikings top Packers 24-10, but lose QB Kirk Cousins to injury

Cousins has never missed a game because of injury in his 12-year career. He did sit out a game at Green Bay during the 2021 season because of a positive COVID-19 test.

The Hindu

An unfolding economic tragedy

A sober analysis of GDP growth just before and after COVID points to a medium-term annual GDP growth forecast of 3%-4%

Salon

JN.1: the next COVID-19 winter variant?

JN.1 isn’t yet a cause for alarm, but that could change, serving as a reminder that COVID always has new tricks

The Hindu

Developed countries to overshoot carbon emissions goal: study

The U.S., Russia and EU will be responsible for 83% of the projected overshoot, according to a study by Council for Energy Environment and Water, a Delhi-based thinktank; developed countries were able to meet their 2020 targets largely due to COVID-19 lockdowns

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Evening Standard

Nicola Sturgeon’s WhatsApp messages during pandemic ‘deleted’

Decision-makers have been asked to disclose data to the UK Covid-19 inquiry

The National (Scotland)

Nicola Sturgeon faces questions amid claims of 'deleted' Covid WhatsApps

SCOTTISH ministers have key questions to answer amid reports that WhatsApp messages about decisions taken during the Covid pandemic have been…

The Guardian - UK

The Tory MP protecting Ipswich, Twix by Twix

Tom Hunt’s claims about shop theft in the town he represents is dog whistle politics

The Independent UK

Joe Wicks turned down Boris Johnson’s ‘not genuine’ health campaign request

‘It felt like a PR thing... just shake hands and have a photo with him’, said the YouTube fitness star

The National (Scotland)

Poetry festival’s no holds barred approach is paying off

CREATED in the middle of the Covid pandemic, Scotland’s newest poetry festival was launched in a spirit of defiance.

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock says he faced ‘injustice’ during Covid pandemic

‘I feel a sense of injustice at being made to be essentially accused of corruption,’ former health secretary says

The Independent UK

Symptoms of long Covid explained as almost two million people suffer in the UK

Condition has more than 200 debilitating symptoms, reveals study

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