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Lubaina Himid: Black artists ‘enriching, not threatening’ British culture
“I’ve always been ambitious to change the way British art galleries are,” says the artist Lubaina Himid, the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize four years ago.
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Rising Covid cases in Europe means ‘rocky road ahead‘ as winter approaches, says WHO’s Dr Richard Pebody
We spoke to Richard Pebody, who leads the high-threat pathogen team for the World Health Organization in Europe.
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During the coronavirus pandemic there were nudges working that you didn’t even notice, says behavioural economist Richard Thaler
From Covid to climate change to running countries as democracies or autocracies, we all have to make choices for ourselves and for society.
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Billionaire Sir Richard Branson flies to edge of space in Virgin Galactic rocket
The billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson has made it into the edge of space on board his own rocket ship, as the Virgin Atlantic craft made its first fully crewed test flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
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US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson could miss Tokyo Olympics after positive cannabis test
The American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson could miss competing in the 100 metres at the Olympics in Tokyo after testing positive for cannabis.
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Militant resurgence in Mozambique’s oil and gas rich province of Cabo Delgado
In Mozambique, the oil and gas rich northern province of Cabo Delgado has become one of the latest targets of resurgent Islamic state group militants.
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‘Labour’s problem is everywhere in Britain at the moment’, says Tory MP Richard Holden
One of the Conservative MPs who helped smash Labour’s red wall here in the North East during the last general election was Richard Holden.
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Richard Okorogheye’s mother: Police didn’t initially take missing student case seriously due to race
The mother of the missing student Richard Okorogheye has said that she believes the police initially did not take her seriously because of her race.
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Work is being done to convey to Liberia that Covid is ‘real and they need to get protected’, says WHO’s Dr Richard Mihigo
Dr Richard Mihigo is the Africa vaccination programme coordinator for the World Health Organization. We put it to him that it might be hard to persuade people in Liberia that Covid is as big a threat as Ebola.
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‘We’re positioned to move much more rapidly against the variants in 2021’- Dr Richard Hatchett
We were joined by Dr John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr Richard Hatchett, the chief executive of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
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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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‘The government has overpromised on dates and under delivered’ – Lancet editor Richard Horton
We spoke to Richard Horton, the editor of medical journal the Lancet. In his latest book, called The Covid 19 Catastrophe, he argues that the UK has lacked a clear and bold strategy to fight the pandemic. We asked him how much blame he laid at the government’s door for the high death toll.
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Richard Leonard quits as Scottish Labour leader
Richard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader with immediate effect.
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Wellcome Trust director says Covid vaccine must be ‘fairly and equitably accessible to the whole world, not just to the rich world’
We’re joined by Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. He also serves on the government’s scientific advisory group Sage.
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“We shouldn’t think of historical change as flipping a light switch” – KCL’s Prof Richard Drayton on Barbadian plans to remove Queen as head of state.
We were joined by Prof Richard Drayton, a Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, who was born in Guyana and grew up in Barbados, and by Prof Kehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University.