When Downing St held a Christmas party last year, most of the UK was facing another strict lockdown. Just a day after the party was reportedly held, Boris Johnson announced new measures which the media touted as ‘cancelling Christmas’. bigissue.com/news/politics/…
Days before the party, then-health secretary Matt Hancock briefed MPs on the discovery of a more transmissible new Covid variant which was growing exponentially around England.
On December 17 – one day before the party – 35,383 positive cases were recorded across the UK as the latest coronavirus wave hammered the country. It was the most seen in one day since the beginning of the pandemic.
People across England were living in fear for their jobs while abiding by the government’s restrictions to help stem the spread of Covid. The closure of pubs, restaurants and theatres in London alone put 150,000 jobs at risk.
Nearly 3,000 people died with Covid across England and Wales in the week leading up to the alleged Downing Street party, according to the Office for National Statistics. bigissue.com/news/politics/…

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8 Dec
On December 18, Downing Street officials allegedly held a Christmas party in breach of Covid rules. @Bigissue spoke to frontline workers about what they were doing on the same evening as they battled to protect others: bigissue.com/news/politics/… #PartyGate
Bonnie Milnes was working in care on December 18, and was forced to stay away from her family to keep her client safe. “The party at number 10 highlights how much of a joke Boris makes of looking after the British public,” she says. bigissue.com/news/politics/… #downingstreetparty
@merseyview says it's clear the government “care very little” about people if they “can so brazenly flout the rules they put in place and then sneer about it”. On December 18, she was working in overstretched adult social care services: bigissue.com/news/politics/…
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The menu for #COP26 delegates has come under fire for serving meat and dairy in almost 60 per cent of its dishes.

A spokesperson for @RebelsAnimal called it "like serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference"

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A statement on the catering website for #COP26 says: “According to the WWF, we need to get [the carbon footprint of food] down below 0.5 kg CO2e [per meal] to reach the goals defined in the Paris Agreement."

So what's on the menu?

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The worst offender, according to #COP26 ratings, was... haggis.

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Today, world leaders at #COP26 pledged to end deforestation by 2030, promising £14bn in funding. We asked delegates what they made of the announcement…
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Homelessness is already bad for health – but climate change is set to make things worse. That’s why the climate crisis is even more reason why homelessness must end

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What will your day look like in 2050?

Depending on the outcome of #COP26, the picture could be very different. @sarahirwilson spoke to experts across fashion, diet, transport & architecture for a snapshot of life in the best and worst-case scenarios
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🏡✅ If all goes well, in 2050 you share a complex with neighbours of all ages and reap the benefits of cheap renewable energy, rainwater-powered showers and smart architecture to keep the building cool in summer and toasty in winter.
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🏚️❌In the worst-case scenario, the government’s retrofitting scheme never finished, leaving millions of homes draughty, relying on dwindling gas supplies for heat. You feel lucky not to be in an area constantly hit by flooding - both at home and abroad.
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'As ludicrous in real life as he appears on screen. He radiates a studied serenity, as though he’s on a higher plane to the rest of us, and while he’s certainly on a different plane, no doubt about that, it’s probably not a higher one' bigissue.com/culture/tv/eig… Image
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