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Baker Mayfield thanks Cleveland as Browns meet with Deshaun Watson
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Baker Mayfield thanked Browns fans and the city of Cleveland on the same day the team met with Deshaun Watson, his potential replacement. “With many uncertainties, here is where my head and heart is,” Mayfield wrote o...
Baker Mayfield is not the problem. But he’s not the solution either
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The Cardinals clubbed the Browns 37-14 on the road on Sunday to move to 6-0 on the season. They now have the league’s last remaining undefeated record. For Cleveland, it was the same old nagging question: Is Baker May...
‘It’s gone too far to mend’: Unhappy Baker Mayfield requests trade from Browns
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Baker Mayfield’s career with the Cleveland Browns could be coming to a messy end after the quarterback demanded a trade away from the team that selected him as the No 1 overall pick in the 2018 draft. “It’s in the mut...
Sticking to a Covid-19 elimination strategy keeps New Zealand’s options open
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Aotearoa New Zealand’s new national strategy for loosening border restrictions closely follows scientific advice from an expert panel that was specifically asked to advise on the future of New Zealand’s elimination st...
Bob Baker obituary
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The writer Bob Baker, who has died aged 82, had creative input into the screen careers of two very different, but hugely popular, canine creations: Doctor Who’s robot dog K9 and the largely silent but comically expres...
Public inquiry opens into Met police killing of unarmed Jermaine Baker
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A public inquiry into the death of an unarmed man shot by a Metropolitan police marksman during a foiled prison break has heard that a bug in the getaway car picked up the occupants saying they did not have a real gun...
Constituents set up ‘Steve Baker Watch’ over MP’s climate stance
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Constituents of Steve Baker MP who are concerned about his environmental position have set up a “Steve Baker Watch” group and are launching a crowdfunding page to raise money. The constituents in Baker’s constituency ...
Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield, coach Kevin Stefanski test positive for Covid
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The Browns’ Covid-19 outbreak has widened and worsened. Quarterback Baker Mayfield and coach Kevin Stefanski tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday and will likely miss Saturday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders...
London by Phil Baker review – a 100,000-year survey of the capital
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If you love London but live elsewhere, it is an emotional experience to read a book that immerses you deep in the city after a year of enforced estrangement. To reacquaint myself with the place via this spirited accou...
The hunt for Tommy Baker: on the trail of Papua New Guinea’s most-wanted man
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As the sun set over the coast of Alotau, a town in the east of Papua New Guinea, on a Friday night in April, four boats zoomed from the beach into the night. Onboard the dinghies there were close to 100 men, fully arm...
Meaningless slogans like ‘freedom day’ harm our ability to properly debate the pandemic
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Politicians around the world have been promoting responses to the Covid-19 pandemic with statements such as: “we must open up”, “we have to learn to live with the virus”, and “freedom day”. But to us epidemiologists t...
Black French-American rights activist Josephine Baker enters Panthéon
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Josephine Baker, the French-American civil rights activist, music hall superstar and second world war resistance hero, is set to become the first Black woman to enter France’s Panthéon mausoleum of revered historical ...
New Zealand’s Covid strategy was one of the world’s most successful – what can we learn from it?
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Two weeks ago marked the two-year anniversary of New Zealand’s adoption of the elimination strategy and a lockdown that successfully stamped out the first wave of Covid-19. By chance, it was also the week that the gov...
The creation of a Māori health authority is good news – but the devil will be in the details
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After decades of neglect, inequality, and outright racism in New Zealand’s health system, a shift toward indigenous sovereignty and tino rangatiratanga in healthcare is long overdue. The Māori Health Authority that th...
Tories like me don’t seek a culture war. We just want a ‘radically moderate’ society
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Oliver Dowden, the Conservative party chair, recently delivered an interesting speech to the Heritage Foundation thinktank in Washington. The Independent reported it with the headline “Tory chair gave ‘anti-woke’ spee...
Tory MP Steve Baker shares paper denying climate crisis
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A Conservative MP has shared a scientific paper that says the climate emergency is not happening. Steve Baker, the MP for Wycombe and a leading member of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, shared the report, produced by the...