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Former prime minister says he and his advisers felt bewildered and frazzled at outbreak of pandemic
Heating pipes hiss and temperature rises as Hancock is roasted during Covid testimony
The former health secretary received a grilling at the UK’s Covid inquiry on Thursday in London
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Hancock says Britain should have locked down at the start of March 2020, three weeks earlier than it did, and that he now realises this would have saved 90% of lives lost in first wave
Matt Hancock ‘profoundly sorry’ for every death caused by Covid-19
Britain’s former health secretary says he understands why his apology might be hard to accept
Is WhatsApp making work life more nasty and brutish?
A workplace divided by dozens of febrile WhatsApp group discussions is not necessarily a happy one
Kathy Sheridan: Lo, in the fourth year of Covid, the ancient game of hindsight returned
Anyone tempted to hammer at decisions made by others in the scorching heat of the pandemic should be careful to examine their own sometimes complex record
Meta might yet come to love WhatsApp as much as Matt Hancock and friends do
Laura Slattery: The messaging app plays a valuable role in many people’s lives, but what is it worth to its owner?
Messages show Matt Hancock wanted to ‘frighten everyone’ into following Covid-19 rules
Further revelations about former UK health secretary’s thinking on pandemic revealed as more texts published
Some criticism of journalist who leaked Hancock’s messages grounded in expectations women should play nice
Astonishing thing is not that Oakeshott betrayed his confidence, it is that she ever had it in the first place. But some of the criticism of her was unfair
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State’s response to pandemic under fresh scrutiny as Government prepares terms for its review
Matt Hancock’s lockdown WhatsApps: the drip feed that is gripping Westminster
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott breaches non-disclosure agreement to leak 100,000 of former health secretary’s messages
Isabel Oakeshott: the journalist who turned over Matt Hancock
Conservative MPs astonished that Hancock entrusted private correspondence to journalist accused of having poor track record for protecting sources
Matt Hancock ‘hugely disappointed and sad’ after WhatsApp messages sent to newspaper
Former British health secretary denies sending ‘menacing message’ to journalist Isabel Oakeshott after documents disclosed
Patrick Freyne’s TV of 2022: Liam Neeson’s bitter words, The Love Boat with full frontal nudity, and a farewell to a legend
The White Lotus, The Bear, Severance and Somebody Somewhere were unmissable
Matt Hancock to stand down as Conservative MP at next UK general election
Former UK health secretary stripped of party whip following appearance on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here reality show
Patrick Freyne: As a toad sits on his head, it’s clear Matt Hancock is inured to all humiliation
On I’m a Celebrity, the former UK health secretary eventually wears down his appalled jungle mates with his vague and masochistic pleasantness
I’m a Celebrity final: Matt Hancock maintains his dignity as molluscs make a beeline for his crotch
Television: The British MP is the first of the three finalists to be voted off the TV show as the England football star Jill Scott is crowned queen of the jungle
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From the I’m a Celebrity final and a day in the life of the Dart to Hugh Wallace’s Bungalow Bliss and the TV bloopers of It’ll be Alright on the Night
Anne Harris: Matt Hancock is winning in the court of public opinion
Reality TV provides escapism in dark times. It also explores the fundamentals of human behaviour
The Irish shouldn’t have put a border across their own country in the first place
The Diary of a Secret Tory MP author seeks to prove that Britain’s ruling party is not beyond parody
I’m a Celebrity: Matt Hancock staggers on. Can he see Love Island on the horizon?
Television: The former British health secretary’s arrival caused uproar last week. But opinion appears to have turned
Laura Slattery: Matt Hancock the World Cup warm-up act in TV’s theatre of bad dreams
Feelgood goes out of fashion with I’m a Celebrity’s nauseous contestant choice set to segue into Fifa’s Qatar disgrace
I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! Matt Hancock arrives to stunned looks. Buckle up. There’s no telling how weird this could get
Television: ‘I can’t help thinking he should be at work,’ Chris Moyles says of the UK’s former health secretary. Boy George looks as if he might quit in disgust
Matt Hancock fiasco: The kangaroo’s penis theory of British politics remains unproven
Donald Clarke: Matt Hancock’s unveiling by I’m a Celebrity could hardly have gone worse
Ex-UK minister Matt Hancock loses Tory whip for entering I’m A Celebrity
Chief whip Simon Hart said the situation was so serious he should have the right to sit as a Conservative suspended
2021: The year in highlights
From the storming of the Capitol and the Suez Canal to Olympic success and Storm Barra, the news never stopped
Boris Johnson attended No 10 lockdown party in May 2020 – reports
British prime minister reportedly present for 15 minutes following Covid press briefing
Revealed: Google’s most popular searches of 2021
Squid Game, Bernie Sanders’s mittens and how to wear skinny jeans dominate global trends
Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’, inquiry finds
Bereaved families call for public inquiry to be brought forward after cross-party report
The English are rogues in a way we Irish only imagine ourselves to be
The UK is being led by a cabal of ageing frat boys whose decisions are making its people sick
Britain’s pingdemic: ‘Covid app error’ means thousands could have isolated needlessly
Whitehall whistleblower says people were classed as close contacts for five days, not two
Top Tories warn Johnson against demoting Sunak
Tensions between prime minister and chancellor rise over spending policy
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