Jon Snow
Jon Snow, on his own involvement in protests at Liverpool University 50 years ago
As Liverpool prepares for protest, Jon Snow writes of his own involvement in very similar actions there fifty years ago
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Revealed: Safety concerns over 85 million masks and respirators
Department of Health issues safety warnings, notices for disposal and distribution stoppages of government’s pandemic PPE
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Pubs in England prepare to re-open, amid warnings of second wave
4 July is set to be “independence day” from the lockdown, for businesses such as pubs and hairdressers in England. We now know how they are supposed to open safely, thanks to a tranche of detailed guidelines published overnight. But fears about a loosened lockdown prompted leading medical figures to warn of a second wave…
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Met Police have to ‘work hard to explain the rationality’ behind stories that suggest discriminatory policing – Met Police’s former head of diversity
I’m joined now by Victor Olisa, the Metropolitan’s former head of diversity, and head of policing in Tottenham.
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Met Police Assistant Commissioner would have ‘probably’ joined BLM protesters if he was not an officer
When Neil Basu joined the Metropolitan Police in 1992, he admits that his friends and family thought he was insane.
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British police’s long history of racism allegations
There have long been accusations that the police in the UK have treated the black community unfairly.
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Jon Snow
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‘Personally, I wouldn’t be taking the statue down – I would be putting up a plaque’ – Bishop of Dover
We are joined now by the professor of public history and broadcaster David Olushoga who’s in Bristol, and the Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin – the first black woman to become a Church of England bishop – joins us from Canterbury in Kent.
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“When this news cycle moves on, the lived reality of racism will persist in the black community as it has done since records began ” – George the Poet
Earlier, Krishnan Guru-Murthy took a camera down to meet the spoken word artist and rapper George the Poet
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‘This disease has shone light on deep-seated inequalities’ – Lord Simon Woolley
We are joined now by Lord Woolley, the chair of the government’s Race Disparity Unit Advisory Group.
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‘There was a great promise that change would be made and it has not come to fruition when it comes to justice‘ – retired US Army Commander
We’re joined by retired Lieutenant General Russel Honore, who was in charge of National Guard troops in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and has served as a deputy on the US National Security Council.
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New mask rules ‘offer clarity’ although science ‘isn’t very clear’ – epidemiology professor
We’re joined by Professor Liam Smeeth, a clinical epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: face masks and coronavirus impact on the brain
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
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How will ‘social bubbles’ work?
The Scottish government has already announced a new strategy of “social bubbles” – allowing you to mix with more people. And it’s likely that similar policies will be introduced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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‘There is hope people will go along with these things not because of the government but despite of the government and what Cummings did’ – scientist Stephen Reicher
Whether Dominic Cummings’ trip was within lockdown rules or not is up for debate. What is more clear that people are already asking if it’s OK for them to do the same. Some fear that could undermine lockdown rules and spark an increase in Covid deaths – like, Stephen Reicher – a behavioural scientist who…
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: care home residents with no symptoms, dementia genetics, and testing positive after recovery
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
