In the headlines
We may soon be swamped by 100,000 daily cases of Covid, says Health Secretary Sajid Javid. It’s “tremendously reassuring” that he’s not pressing the panic button by ordering mask mandates and working from home, says the Daily Mail. But what will trigger Plan B? The government seems to have no idea, says The Times: “Bluntly, there’s a sense of drift.” The world’s biggest carbon emitters are trying to water down a UN report on climate change, says the BBC: a Saudi official has demanded that any mention of ditching fossil fuels “be eliminated” and Australia has rejected a call to shut down coal-fired power stations. Facebook is planning a name change, reports The Verge. Sure, says anti-Mark Zuckerberg congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: “That’ll fix it 🙄”