NEWS
Supermarkets to ban people who are not wearing masks
Morrisons and Sainsbury’s has vowed to ban shoppers who refuse to wear face masks from entering their stores as supermarkets face calls to bring in security to enforce strict lockdown rules. This comes amid threats to impose outdoor mask mandates, with London’s Borough Market becoming the first place in the UK to legally enforce the wearing of masks — Mail
Police in England say they won’t enforce masks in supermarkets — Guardian
Millions of WhatsApp users abandon the app and switch to rivals Telegram or Signal ahead of privacy policy update that will force them to share their personal data with Facebook — Mail
Poor families’ living costs have surged during pandemic, study finds — Guardian
US
House of Representatives to move to impeach Trump after push to have Pence remove him from office — Wall Street Journal
Big Corporate uses Capitol riots to push communist-style social credit system on Americans — Joy Pullmann, Federalist
Can the Senate try private citizen Trump after he leaves office? — Alan Dershowitz, Gladstone Institute
Trump approval rating steady despite fallout from Capitol breach, polling find — Epoch Times
COMMENT
Democracy is in far greater peril than the complacent West realises — William Hague, Telegraph
