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In pictures

Gallery: all of Team GB’s 65 medal winners from Tokyo 2020

Team GB finish fourth in the medal table with 22 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze

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Expert’s view

Investing in wine: what the experts think

A Northern frontier and a Brexit red tape victory

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Today’s big question

Will a new insurance scheme save live events?

Music festivals and other live events will be protected by a government-backed insurance scheme if future Covid lockdowns prevent them from going ahead

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Getting to grips with . . .

The Green New Deal

6 Aug 2021

In Brief

Crackdown in Tunisia: a dying democracy?

5 Aug 2021

Why we’re talking about . . .

Robinhood’s debut: an ‘unconventional listing’

6 Aug 2021

Today’s newspapers

‘Gleam GB’

9 Aug 2021

The Daily Briefing

9 August 2021

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UK to ‘bounce’ around immunity

Britain is close to achieving herd immunity but likely to “bounce over and below” the required threshold throughout the winter, according to a governm…

‘Stark warning’ on climate

The world’s largest ever report into climate change will be published today, with environmental experts predicting it will be a “massive wake-up call”…

Afghans on brink as cities fall

Afghanistan’s government is nearing collapse after the Taliban stormed three more cities and murdered a pilot, leading to desertions from the air forc…

‘Too many’ go to university

One of Britain’s leading education philanthropists has warned that too many young people are going to university. Sir Peter Lampl, the founder and cha…

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Instant Opinion

‘Climate deniers are on the back foot but there is still no clear message’

Your digest of analysis and commentary from the British and international press

Richie Campbell and John Simm star in Grace

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In Review

TV crime dramas to watch in 2021

Coronavirus

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Today’s big question

What Australia’s new lockdowns reveal about a ‘zero Covid strategy’

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Today’s big question

Will we have to start paying for lateral flow tests?

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Behind the scenes

Why England is dropping isolation for EU and US tourists

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In focus: the Covid vaccines

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Oxford-AstraZeneca

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been the jewel in the crown of the UK jab rollout, with its most recent clinical trial results reporting an overall…

Pfizer-BioNTech

Most vaccines rely on weakened or inactivated parts of the virus to provoke an immune response in their recipients, but the Pfizer version is syntheti…

Moderna

Moderna has become the third coronavirus vaccine to be rolled out in the UK. The majority of the available vaccines have been bought by the UK, EU, US…

Janssen-Johnson & Johnson

Like the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the Janssen drug uses a modified adenovirus, a harmless, engineered virus that is injected into the patient. The …

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