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BBC News (UK)

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From today, businesses with staff on furlough will have to pay 10% of their wagesAlmost 10 million workers have had their wages paid by the government, during the coronavirus pandemicOn

Lourdes Juan

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As a small business owner, I can tell you that after hearing the new restrictions yesterday I am certain the Alberta government does not understand the impact its scattershot pandemic

Jane Middleton

cinnamontoastuk

It was bitterly cold yesterday. A man was sitting in a doorway, so I stopped to offer to buy him a hot drink. He asked me my name, shook my

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

OK, so from my interviews with a ton of epidemiologists over the last bunch of months, here's a pretty straightforward plan to suppress the virus and get the US to

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

I looked at this piece by @michaelgove in an effort to understand what it is that prevents the current government from agreeing a free trade agreement with the EU.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/michael-gove-why-were-not-giving-in-to-the

The Center for Communist Studies

communistcenter

OTD 33 years ago, the revolutionary President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara was murdered. His 4 short years as President showed what is possible when people live in harmony with

Andy Cowper

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Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2019 | The King's Fund < The long-running ⁦@NatCen⁩ BSA survey has released its latest findings.https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/public-satisfaction-nhs-social-care-2019 This may not

Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪

XinqiSu

#JUSTIN #CarrieLam said she told LegCo president this morning that she has to postpone pronouncement of Policy Address originally set on Wednesday morning. Lam said this arrangement is legally sound

Anthony Leiserowitz

ecotone2

For all those pundits stuck in the 1990s and making claims today like, "Biden just lost PA" because he pledged to transition the US to 100% clean energy - here

Simon McGarr

Tupp_Ed

For a flavour of the sort of things Government TDs have been saying about campaigners out of the glare of these public fora where they will be engaged with, here’s

Guido Fawkes

GuidoFawkes

All those people praising the German healthcare system's response never mention that only 28% of their hospitals are state-owned. 28% of the roughly 1,950 hospitals that participate in Germany’s universal

Ritwik Dau Pandey

RitwikPandey99

US president Joe Biden proposing upto 43% capital Gain tax on earnings from crypto is a mind-boggling decision.Opportunities for countries like India to take their cut on the crypto

Caroline Dodds Pennock

carolinepennock

George Eustice is the second government representative today (after Raab) that I've heard say schools will only be able to open with social distancing. Have these people ever seen a

Young Women's Trust

YWTrust

NEW REPORT | During this pandemic, young women have been left to pick up the pieces. Read this thread on the impact coronavirus has had on their careers, finances, home

Martin Neil

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@MichaelYeadon3 @FatEmperor @ClareCraigPath @DrLeeJones @carlhenegha @BallouxFrancois@ProfKarolSikora 1. On 19th March the UK 4 nations public health HCID group made a decision that COVID-19 is NOT a high consequence infectious disease

Phyllis Camera

CameraPhyllis

Author unknownWe are seeing the most draconian measures enforced at all levels of government that we've ever seen in our lifetimes, and yet rather than being alarmed by the things