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“I’ve got one leg, I’ve got no feet, I see through one eye, one workable hand. I was burned all over, and I feel strong, I feel more confident than I ever have” - Fox News correspond­ent Benjamin Hall in his first live television appearance since being seriously injured in Ukraine. “What’s the point of building HS2 just to get to Birmingham?” Labour peer Lord Berkeley, who in 2019 was deputy chairman of a government­commission­ed review into HS2, suggests it should be cancelled amid reports the high speed rail line will not reach its central London terminus at Euston. “Thankfully, times and laws in the US have changed, and the great good the award brought to the LGBTQ+ cause back in 2009 is now less potent than the misgivings I have being associated with the toxicity of empire” - Alan Cumming on why he returned his OBE, which he received for his work as an actor, as well as his campaignin­g for LGBTQ+ rights in the USA. “To those who retired early after the pandemic, or haven’t found the right role after furlough, I say: Britain needs you” - Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, citing data that shows millions of people have chosen to exit the workforce. “There are people who have opposed this Bill that cloak themselves in women’s rights to make it acceptable, but just as they’re transphobi­c you’ll also find that they’re deeply misogynist, often homophobic, possibly some of them racist as well” - First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in an interview with Global’s The News Agents podcast on her government’s Gender Recognitio­n Reform Bill.

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