NEWS
Government to ‘allow’ us to hug again
With one in three adults now fully vaccinated, the Prime Minister will declare that friends and relatives can – from next Monday – hug for the first time in a year. He is not likely to question why the Government was ever allowed to tell people they weren’t ‘permitted’ to cuddle others in the first place. Nor will he ask why the media still rarely raises this question and, instead, heralds Boris’ kind allowance as a ‘return to freedom’ – Mail
Sir Keir Starmer reshuffles Labour team amid threats over leadership – Telegraph
UK Covid-related cybercrime fuels 15-fold rise in scam takedowns – Guardian
Boris Johnson to relax rules on building new homes – Times
Nurses receive activist training to mobilise for strike action – Guardian
Melinda Gates has been consulting divorce lawyers since October 2019 when Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed and she decided marriage was ‘irretrievably broken’ – Mail
COMMENT
Sir Keir Starmer isn’t the solution to the Labour Party’s crisis, he’s the cause – Nick Timothy, Telegraph