Biden’s main focus has been on four domestic priorities: the coronavirus, economy, environment and racial justice
The pandemic 😷
Thanks to improved distribution and a network of giant vaccination centres and pharmacy inoculations, Biden’s early goal of 100 million “shots in arms” by 100 days was reached on day 59
Partly as a result, new daily cases have dropped from an average of nearly 200,000 in the week leading up to his inauguration to around 54,400, a fall of 73%
The economy 📈
Stock market gains under Biden have been the strongest since FDR. The S&P’s rise of 24% since his inauguration beat a rise of 11.4% under Trump
“It feels like Northern Ireland will never move on from Protestant-Catholic, nationalist-unionist, and Brexit has just started a whole new conversation around the same old subject,” says Mary O’Neill, an 18-year-old A-level student
“Mary is my niece. It is hard for me to believe that, almost a quarter of a century after the Good Friday Agreement, she is wrestling with the same choices I faced back in the early 1980s”
A YouTuber going by the name of Zed Phoenix starts publishing videos on his channel claiming that Bill and Melinda Gates had taken over the UK’s vaccine programme, with Chris Whitty having personally received £31 million from the foundation
Phoenix’s real name is Ben Fellows. A 46-year-old from Solihull and a former child actor who in 2012 falsely accused Ken Clarke MP of having molested him 18 years earlier
Fellows was described in court as "an inventive and sometimes persuasive fantasist"
Prince Philip’s duties as consort began on February 6, 1952, when his young wife Princess Elizabeth became Queen. He was also the oldest-serving partner of a reigning monarch, and in February 2013 became the oldest ever male member of the royal family thetimes.co.uk/article/like-a…
Always in trouble at school. Dead-end jobs. Failed relationships. James Bloodworth (@J_Bloodworth) often wondered why he found life so difficult. Then four months ago, a psychiatrist gave him the answer – he had ADHD thetimes.co.uk/article/i-was-…
“I’d given up,” says @J_Bloodworth. “No amount of willpower was enough. The empty Word document was a shameful testament to my lack of focus.
“I was supposed to be a writer. But I was a writer who didn’t write. Instead I lay in bed, paralysed with ennui and despair.”
“I had hit a similar wall during my schooldays. I knew I was different. My brain was frenetic. Sometimes frenetic and at other times like a sieve.”
#WorldatFive 🌎: Israel is watching to see if the devotee cruelly spurned by Binyamin Netanyahu will forgive him — or strike him down and take his place as prime minister thetimes.co.uk/article/bennet…
All Naftali Bennett ever wanted was to be Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-hand man. Instead, the one-time protégé now finds himself on the brink of ending his former mentor’s long term in office and replacing him as Israel’s prime minister
The question is: how badly does he want revenge?
In public Bennett remains non-committal and promises to do “whatever is best for Israel”. In private, he is saying he will never trust Netanyahu again, and is prepared to bring his long rule to an end