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How the UKs Covid reopening has proved Imperials pessimistic modelling wrong Here is what government scientists said would happen and what we know now 4 May 2021 • 7:48pm The Imperial team warned there was no way out of a devastating third wave Credit: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire  As pandemic revisionism goes, it was really quite extraordinary. Asked on BBC Radio Four’s Today Programme about the latest data showing Britain is enjoying an eight-month low in coronavirus deaths and infections, Pr...

British Journalism Award winner and leading authority on media diversity Marcus Ryder MBE gives his take on the issue following Press Gazette’s race and the media survey. When we talk about the racism and bigotry in the UK media industry it is very easy to focus on some of the worst most visible excesses. The recent Press Gazette survey about racism and bigotry in the UK news media makes for shocking reading. When three quarters (74%) of black journalists who responded to the survey were able...

Alex Salmond has launched a new pro-independence party Credit: PA You’ve got to hand it to Alex Salmond; whatever his shortcomings, and he has many, he’s never short of a ringing phrase. On the Today Programme on Thursday he said he had charged his 32-strong army of Alba footsoldiers to ‘advance the most noble cause of all … Scottish independence’. Leaving aside his love of hyperbole, I can’t believe that most electors haven’t already concluded that there’s nothing in any way n...

BBC Today programme host Martha Kearney slammed Irelands Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney for missing the whole point of Brexit in a row over trade with the US.

The Today job is part of a raft of new projects for Rajan and is designed to refresh and modernise the flagship show

Covid-19: School rapid test cannot be overruled, says minister Published image captionPupils will be asked to take tests on their return to school The government is sticking to the rule that a positive rapid Covid test done in secondary schools in England cannot be overruled by the gold-standard tests processed by labs. Concerns have been raised by testing experts that significant numbers could be incorrectly told they are infected. They have called for all positives from the rapid testing done...

Matt Hancock has defended a proposed 1 per cent pay rise for NHS staff as he said it was made on the basis of "affordability".

The UK Government Budget is announced today. Some things, such as the furlough scheme and Universal Credit, apply to people in Wales, while spending…

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A retired doctor wrote to the Today programme to express his concern about the voice of the double Olympic champion