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One for the road: the battle to keep the Netherlands’ brown bars

The UK’s former Health Secretary plotted to “deploy the new variant” of Covid-19 to “frighten the pants off everyone” into complying with lockdown, leaked

BBC News By Leo Kelion & David Molloy Technology reporters Live-audio app Clubhouse is creating plenty of chatter - about itself. Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, Demi Lovato and Mark Zuckerberg are among the celebrities to have popped up on the service. And you can find chats about everything from Bitcoin and Buddhism to relationships and R&B music on it. Even so, the idea that this one-year-old app could be worth $4bn (£2.9bn) is startling. It stems from a Bloomberg report saying the Sa...

In the months that followed, his workouts hit 80 million views. PE With Joe has returned for the latest lockdown, to the relief of thousands of harassed parents. ‘People realised that training at home was less time-consuming and more cost-effective,’ says Louis Rennocks, co-founder of GRNDHOUSE, a strength-training workout platform that launched this month. ‘The pandemic gave the at-home fitness industry the boost it needed to accelerate what was going to happen anyway.’ How fitness got...