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Coronavirus test confusion as No 10 admits it has no idea if they work

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The Government has admitted it has no idea if the 3.5million antibody tests it has ordered work – despite a senior official saying they would available in Boots within days. Professor Sharon Peacock, director of Public Health England’s National Infection Service, yesterday told MPs the home-testing kits could get clearance and start being distributed for use … Read more

Was Orwell’s 1984 his wife’s idea? That’s the suggestion in a new biography

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BOOK OF THE WEEK  EILEEN: THE MAKING OF GEORGE ORWELL  by Sylvia Topp (Unbound £20, 560 pp)  Back in 1934, a poem appeared in the Sunderland Church High School magazine, written by one of its alumnae, Eileen Maud O’Shaugnessy. Its title? End Of The Century, 1984. The poem foresaw a bleak near-future in which scholars, … Read more