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India’s Covid dystopia: what went wrong?
We look at the situation on the ground right now at the heart of this Covid hell and ask: what went wrong in India?
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FactCheck: what are the consequences for politicians who lie?
Who gets to decide whether someone in power is guilty of lying? And what penalties are in place for those who are found to have deliberately misled parliament or the public?
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Johnson defends ‘fix it’ texts to entrepreneur James Dyson
The Prime Minister has defended text messages he sent to a Conservative donor, Sir James Dyson, in which he pledged to “fix” the vacuum entrepreneur’s concerns about tax rules.
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Prince Philip: TV viewers switch off blanket coverage
When the Duke of Edinburgh’s death was announced on Friday, the nation’s broadcasters, including Channel 4, rearranged their schedules to make way for extended programmes paying tribute to his life.
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Revisited: Could Covid-19 and Brexit lead to Scotland’s exit from the UK?
Our Scotland correspondent Ciaran Jenkins has been talking to voters who previously rejected independence to see if the tide is turning, and what might be behind their change of heart.
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Revisited: Should BAME groups be fast-tracked for the vaccine?
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni has spent the year telling the stories of Black and brown families affected by the virus and reflects on whether enough is being done to protect people of colour during the pandemic.
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Horror and unspeakable crimes in the war in Tigray
Our Africa Correspondent Jamal Osman gained rare access to Tigray and spoke to women who told him their accounts of soldiers using rape as a weapon of war.
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FactCheck: ministers’ questionable claims about when they knew of symptom-free Covid spread
There was evidence for asymptomatic transmission very early in the pandemic.
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FactCheck: What is happening with Britain’s vaccine supply?
AstraZeneca has committed to delivering 2 million doses of vaccine a week, but it’s not easy to check whether this benchmark is being hit.
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The murder of Jamal Khashoggi: will justice ever be served?
Our foreign correspondent Jonathan Rugman is the author of “The Killing in the Consulate”.
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FactCheck: England will still unlock slowly despite vaccinating faster than government assumed
It looks like we’re weeks ahead of schedule, but government says it won’t change course.
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Punk icon Poly Styrene remembered by her daughter in documentary
Daughter of punk icon Poly Styrene makes a documentary about her mother’s life called ‘I am a Cliche’.
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Rich, richer, richest: the pandemic billionaires
During a year of economic hardship for many, some have in fact taken advantage of the pandemic and got even richer.
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How Celeste has not let lockdown affect her rising stardom
She was named the BBC’s sound of 2020, just before 2020 turned into a year none of us will forget. Twenty-six-year old singer-songwriter Celeste, with her jazz and soul influences, hasn’t let lockdown affect her rising stardom.
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FactCheck: would England tiers system have worked without UK variant?
Ministers have faced questions this week about why they didn’t lockdown earlier at key points in the pandemic.