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America was ready to explode even before George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police.

The twin tragedies of 40 million people — one-quarter of the US workforce — losing their jobs and 100,000 people losing their lives during the coronavirus pandemic had turned the US into an emotional tinderbox that was waiting for a spark to set it off.
Mark and Pete have the answers.

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A growing number of senior Conservatives are demanding the resignation of Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, over allegations that he broke the government’s lockdown rules on several occasions. Should Cummings go? Mark and Pete have the answers.

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We do not know how this pandemic will end. We do know that we will be poorer when it’s over: GDP is plunging around the world.
Millions of households have missed, or expect to miss, payments on at least one bill as a result of the coronavirus crisis, and could face serious consequences as a result, the charity Citizens Advice has said.

Since the lockdown started, millions of workers have been furloughed or laid off by employers, and seen their pay fall as a result.

Measures have been put in place to allow borrowers payment holidays and stall evictions, but the charity said that after these protections are lifted, millions face a “financial cliff edge”.

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Will the US and the UK experience a "recession of historic proportions" that dwarfs the global financial crisis, well according to new forecasts which warn of a collapse in investment, surge in government debt and spike in unemployment that leaves one in five people jobless in some countries. What is going to happen. Mark and Pete have the answers.

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When the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved, the Western world thought, with considerable justification, that the generational struggle with communism had ended. But in our exultation, we forgot to finish the job. Communism lived on in mainland China and is once again challenging the free world for dominance. This time, they’re doing it with our money. As we have begun to realize these past few years, and as the coronavirus outbreak has made even clearer, China has used our free markets and open-mindedness against us, running an economy based on the bizarre fusion of communism and mercantilism while cracking down ever more on its people’s natural rights and freedoms. Is it time for the free world to rejoin the fight?

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Captain Tom Moore has made the honours shortlist after an outpouring of support to get him a knighthood, according to reports.

The 99-year-old Second World War veteran has raised more than £28 million for the NHS by walking laps of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday next Thursday.
However much the Tories are now clapping for our NHS, we must remember that they are fundamentally opposed to public services, and will soon forget their panic and revert to form. There is a revealing article making this point by a former insider now disillusioned with the world view that anything funded by the state (except of course infrastructure that furthers the interests of the rich) is wrong. Additionally, there have been a number of structural changes as well as commitments to increased funding that superficially make it appear as if the strengths of a public national health service are now being acknowledged, together with an implied criticism of much of the reforms of the last near decade.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has sent millions of workers and their families, already scraping to survive, into a financial tailspin from which many will never recover. However, for the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, the pandemic has been a financial bonanza, sending Amazon shares, and Bezos’ personal net worth, soaring.

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COVID-19 has swept the world in a global pandemic of extraordinary proportions. The debate about its eventual health costs continues to rage, but one Centers for Disease Control estimate suggested anywhere between 200,000 and 1.7 million deaths could be expected in the United States alone, depending on the eventual fatality rate, and not adjusting for corrective measures currently in place (although in recent days a revised projected figure of 60,000 deaths has been reported by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation). This makes the pandemic a terrifying proposition—one that has appropriately galvanized public attention globally.

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What is the True Meaning of Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. Mark and Pete look at what it truly means to them today.
Mark and Pete are a businessmen and a clergyman who have been friends since the 70's

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Zoom is changing things encouraged by the response to the crisis. Businesses and churches
are scrambling to adjust to self-isolation and remote working have turned to video conferencing to substitute for face-to-face contact.
#zoom

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