Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
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English Covid restrictions were lifted in July. Back then, some predicted that there could be as many as 6,000 hospital admissions a day by the following month. So, what happened?
The Metropolitan Police says it\\u2019s spent \\xa350 million on policing Extinction Rebellion since 2019. They\\u2019re on the streets again \\u2013 can it really be that costly?
The economics correspondent at The Economist Duncan Weldon puts government borrowing during the pandemic into context and talk about his new book, 200 Years of Muddling Through.
Are we running out of lorry drivers? And to what extent is Brexit to blame? We look at the numbers behind a claim that there is a shortfall of 100,000 lorry drivers in the UK.
Plus, disturbing evidence that Star Trek\\u2019s Mr Spock may actually be terrible at logic.
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