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Dr Jim Down, consultant of critical care and anaesthesia, came to public prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic when BBC crews interviewed him

Lord Bethell said ‘making money is not a crime’ as he insisted the Government ‘did everything that we could to get what was needed’.

Watch live as Oliver Dowden and Jeremy Hunt give evidence to the UK’s Covid inquiry on Wednesday 21 June.

‘In pre-school, they haven’t learned how to socialise... they haven’t learned how to read in school’

Deputy governor Michele Bullock told a Newcastle industry lunch that unemployment would rise to help control inflation.

There are also concerns about a rise in self-harm

There are also concerns about a rise in self-harm

National Audit Office warned that improving services could be a ‘significant challenge’

Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded

At its height, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted well-established patterns of migration within Australia. Reports of a regional renaissance suggested city dwellers were moving to regional areas in droves. The governments of Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory were also keen to promote new migration flows to reverse long-standing declines…

Australia is on track for two years of below-trend economic growth that may be even weaker than first feared.