Before representing five of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, the lawyer advised the producer on how to discredit his accusers. Does she have any regrets?The night before I meet Lisa Bloom, the BBC screens its interview with…
The UK government is trying to draw museums…
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Coronavirus live news: 60m Indians may have contracted…
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Cineworld confirms all cinemas in UK and US…
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The right fails to recognise that the Swedes’ real virtue in this pandemic is their social cohesionSweden is to the 21st-century right what the Soviet Union was to the 20th-century left. Conservatives have transformed it…
Coronavirus live news: New Zealand sees record fall…
Third-highest daily cases in France; new restrictions in north-east England; hospitalisations of 15 to 49-year-olds rising, says WHO. Follow the latest updatesWHO warns Latin America reopening too earlyNew Zealand sees record fall in GDPCDC director…
The UK’s online ID plans: expensive, intrusive, unnecessary…
Of all the ways to reshape society after the pandemic, a digital identity system should not be anyone’s priority“We have no hesitation in making the national identity card scheme an unfortunate footnote in history. There…
Coronavirus live news: global cases pass 22m as…
US and Brazil continue to drive worldwide count; S&P500 index closes at all-time high; European restrictions tightenGlobal report: France tightens mask rules as cases rise in EuropeAustralia does deal to secure potential Oxford vaccine for…
UK coronavirus live: test and trace scheme fails…
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