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Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images 1 The pandemic has been awful. It could have been so much worse on the timing of the pandemic “I won’t call this a miracle,” says Megan McArdle in The Washington Post. But it is “a piece of fantastic luck” for each of us to have been born when it was possible to combat the coronavirus pandemic with a vaccination programme. “Imagine what might have happened if Covid-19 had hit in 2000 instead of 2020,” she writes. We might well have had to make do with less effective vaccines, or wait for natural herd immunity, and “we wouldn’t have had the ...

STUART LAWRENCE Lessons I’ve learned from my brother Stephen Lawrence’s murder… and how they can help kids create a better tomorrow Stuart Lawrence Updated: 20 Apr 2021, 7:56 STUART LAWRENCE has been a teacher for 15 years and a proud parent for a decade. This Thursday marks 28 years since his older brother Stephen was murdered on April 22, 1993, aged 18, in a racially motivated attack that shocked the nation. 7 Stuart Lawrence has written a fantastic new children's book called Silence Is Not An OptionCredit: Jamie Lorriman Stuart, 44, has dedicated his life to mentoring young people t...

The mother of Stephen Lawrence said today that reliving his murder through the new ITV drama will be 'very difficult', but the next generation need to learn about the impact his death made on Britain. Baroness Doreen Lawrence, 71, was discussing the upcoming ITV drama Stephen, which stars Steve Coogan as DCI Clive Driscoll, joined by Sharlene Whyte and Hugh Quarshie. Her son Stephen was stabbed to death aged 18 on April 22, 1993, in a racist attack in south-east London for which charges against the killers were initially dropped.    DCI Driscoll later put together an investigation that se...

Baroness Doreen Lawrence THE family of Stephen Lawrence will be invited to a memorial event in Glasgow by the city council. Councillors have passed a motion which called on the council to mark April 22 as Stephen Lawrence Memorial Day each year. Mr Lawrence, 18, was murdered in a racist attack in South London in 1993. The motion, brought forward by Councillor Graham Campbell, who lived in South East London, recognised the “heroic” anti-racism campaign of the Lawrence family. It also asked the council to note the “landmark changes to equalities law” – including the legal de...

The brother of murdered Stephen Lawrence has criticised police in the wake of the controversial race report and the response to the Sarah Everard vigil. Stuart Lawrence expressed his disappointment with the Met Police's actions in recent weeks and said he questions whether he should continue providing consultancy work for the force. Mr Lawrence even claimed the Met Police is still yet to learn from his brother's racially-motivated killing in 1993. The 44 year old, who was 16 when Stephen was stabbed to death by thugs at a bus stop, said he was shocked by the police response to the Sarah Evera...