Successful political movements are polarising projects that promise to make things better for those who get on board For much of the past month, the liberal commentariat has been excitedly debating how badly “Tory sleaze” would damage Boris Johnson’s Conservatives at the polls. The scandals were clear to see – and hardly surprising, in the […]

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Chief of vaccine maker says relaxing protections ‘will not help’ boost Covid jab supplies

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who met UK home secretary and US secretary of state, will attend meetings in London virtually

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It cannot match China’s heft in foreign investment, but offers lessons for other investors

Christina Nunnally was driving to work when she heard on the radio that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were recommending a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine last week. As the chief quality officer for a network of primary care clinics […]

The national security threats that top intelligence officials laid out for lawmakers on Wednesday were dominated by China’s efforts to expand its global influence and the “cascading crises” and “looming disequilibrium” facing the Biden Administration as existing security challenges are exacerbated by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Their warnings, coupled with a written annual […]

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s ‘chumocracy’ is using Covid crisis to sell off health service by stealth, says Sir David King Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of corruption, privatising the NHS by stealth, operating a “chumocracy” and mishandling the pandemic and climate crisis, by Sir David King, […]

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Scaling up access to nuclear medicine and medical imaging services would avert nearly 2.5 million cancer deaths worldwide by 2030 and yield global lifetime productivity gains of USD 1.41 trillion – a net return of over USD 200 per USD 1 invested, a new study co-authored by the IAEA shows.

Georgia’s GOP governor is pledging allegiance to Trump, even though the former president repeatedly trashed him.

Chancellor defends budget after Joseph Rowntree Foundation says decisions on universal credit will put half a million more into poverty IFS criticises ‘remarkable’ move not to phase out universal credit uplift ‘Families are struggling’: Britons react to Rishi Sunak’s 2021 budget Sunak’s £1bn of ‘town deals’ will nearly all go to Tory constituencies Budget calculator […]

The Infowars host, who profits from pandering to Trump’s base, was filmed in an expletive-laden tirade against him in 2019.