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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Time for an Edward Jenner cow statue in Trafalgar Square?

Welcome to this week’s Londoner’s Diary. Today: let’s have a statue of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner in Trafalgar Square, say historians Tom Holland and Simon Schama - and maybe it should involve a cow. `Alan Rusbridger returns to journalism. Richard Curtis says he’s glad the Comic Relief ‘white saviour’ row happened in hindsight. U2 bassist Adam Clayton on how Bono made himself a stadium star. And in SW1A: Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi tells us he has warned Boris Johnson about flu jabs this winter, and exiled SNP Covid spreading MP Margaret Ferrier keeps hiring staff.

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