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Get ready for Britain s post-pandemic boom
They once said only Argentina would be slower to recover from Covid - but the UK will leave the rest of Europe trailing in its wake
2 April 2021 • 6:00am
Less than two months ago, in its last Monetary Policy Committee report, the Bank of England forecast that the UK economy would shrink a further 4 per cent in the first quarter of this year. It looked a reasonable enough prediction, given renewed lockdown of at that stage indeterminate length.
At the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, they were more pessimistic still. In early December, the OECD warned that recovery from the pandemic would be slower in the UK than any other major economy bar Argentina, with GDP still 6 per cent smaller by the end of this year than its pre-pandemic level.
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Overcautious Europe is fuelling vaccine fears – but AstraZeneca is partly to blame
The Continent’s irrational vaccine hysteria has not been helped by the pharma giant s early missteps
17 March 2021 • 1:42pm
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The point is to reassure, not to undermine. So say all those national regulators that have “paused” the use of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University Covid jab. Sadly, that’s unlikely to be the effect on a continent which in any case seems cursed by vaccine hesitancy. The last thing Europe needed was to sow more doubts about the products’ safety, but that is precisely what has occurred.
Adam Sennott
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City officials will consider the possibility of amending municipal code to restrict the police department’s use of chemical crowd control agents, like tear gas, and kinetic impact projectiles.
Councilors voted Monday night to send the issue to the Ordinance Committee.
The proposed ordinance would prohibit Cambridge police and other law enforcement officers from using chemical crowd control agents against those engaged in a protest, demonstration, or other gathering of more than 10 persons.
Kinetic impact projectiles would also be prohibited unless authorized by a captain, or higher ranking official, who is at the scene of ongoing acts of violence that they have personally witnessed and have determined can’t be controlled in any other way and that de-escalation efforts would not be successful, the order said.