Comment on the photo, The Times began with the news that Just Stop Oil protesters had been given lengthy prison sentences. Five activists, including the group’s co-founder Roger Hallam and 22-year-old Cressida Gethin, were jailed for between four and five years for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway in 2022. It quoted environmental campaigners as calling the sentences a “gross miscarriage of justice”. The Times also ran a headline saying that US President Joe Biden’s “old boss” wanted him to reconsider whether to continue his campaign to become president. Comment on the photo, The Guardian also ran an article titled “Just Stop Oil,” noting that the prison sentences were perhaps the longest ever handed down in the UK for peaceful protest. The newspaper also ran a photo of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shaking hands, noting that the Ukrainian president is due to meet the new British cabinet on Friday.Comment on the photo, A picture of Roger Hallam, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, takes up much of the front page of the Daily Telegraph. The headline reads: “Extinction Rebellion fanatic founder jailed for five years.” Hallam said in a statement during the trial that there was a “commitment” to stopping “the unimaginable horrors of climate and social collapse.” The newspaper also reported that some Democrats believe President Biden could drop out of the presidential race as soon as this week. Comment on the photo, The Daily Mail claims the judge who handed down lengthy prison sentences to the Just Stop Oil campaigners “speaks for us all”. But TV presenter and environmentalist Chris Packham has criticised the sentences, describing the law under which they were convicted as “a reckless and irresponsible erosion of our human rights”.Comment on the photo, According to the i newspaper, Obama sent a message to Biden saying that “the time has come.” The main story says that workers will have the right to ignore emails, texts and phone calls in the evening, under new rules set by the new Labour government. It says the rules are not mandatory but are part of a “new code of practice in the workplace.” Comment on the photo, The Financial Times reported that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cast doubt on President Biden’s chances of winning the White House race, adding that Obama has told his allies that Biden’s chances of defeating Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump later this year have greatly diminished. Comment on the photo, “They have failed us all,” ran the Daily Mirror’s headline, referring to the findings of the Covid inquiry on Thursday. It said the report “criticised Boris Johnson’s handling of the crisis” and quoted the Covid Victims’ Families for Justice UK as saying “the last government has failed its citizens”. The former prime minister has previously apologised to victims for the “pain, loss and suffering” they have suffered during the pandemic, but insisted ministers had done “the best they could” to respond to the virus under difficult circumstances.Comment on the photo, The Metro has published a “devastating” report that says Andrew Malkinson, the man who was sentenced to 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, could have been exonerated a decade ago.Comment on the photo, The Daily Express hailed the “progress” made by a British ship after it returned migrants to France for the first time “in a fresh sign of improved cooperation over the small boat crisis”. It also asked “Is it all over for Joe?” as speculation mounted over whether he would step down from the presidential race.Comment on the photo, “Too hot!” said the Daily Star, as a heatwave hit the UK on Friday.
The findings of the first report of the public inquiry into Covid have received widespread coverage in today’s newspapers.
“They let us all down” says the headline. Daily MirrorNext to a picture of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson wearing a face mask. Watchman Quotes from the report, which says UK Covid planning was “fatally flawed”. the sun She says Covid shortcomings in the UK led to 235,000 deaths. But she says the only real mistake successive health ministers made was to accept the flimsy assurances of the health experts who advised them.
times “The lack of imagination among politicians and scientists alike… was not enough to consider the full range of potential catastrophic scenarios when there was still time to do something about them,” the report says. It says this must not happen again. Daily Express He agrees and says, “Next time, we have to be prepared.”
I, Financial Times And Daily Telegraph All the reports are about Democrats trying to get US President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign. The Telegraph reported that Biden could step down by the end of the week. It quoted a friend of the president as saying: “I pray to God he does the right thing. He is heading that way.”
The i editorial says Biden’s aides “were harboring growing concerns about his suitability for the campaign and ultimately for the highest office.” The Financial Times says senior Democrats are lobbying behind the scenes, but says Biden’s campaign team is defending him fiercely, insisting he stay in the race.
“The Judge Who Spoken for All of Us at Eco-Fanatics” is the headline on the front page of daily MailBelow are pictures of the five environmental protesters who were sentenced to up to five years in prison on Thursday for blocking the M25 for four days. But there is criticism of the sentences in timesThe newspaper quotes businessman Dale Vince as saying that the prison sentences – the longest ever handed down to peaceful protesters – “cannot be right”, given the severe overcrowding in prisons. In the opinion of George Monbiot, a columnist in the Guardian newspaper, “these sentences are the kind you would expect in Russia or Egypt.”
Comment on the photo, Screenwriters focus on Sir Ed Davey’s appearance at the Post Office inquiry on Thursday.
The graphic writers focus on Sir Ed Davey’s appearance in the Post Office Horizon investigation. In daily MailQuentin Letts said it was fortunate that the appearance had come after the general election. Had Thursday’s “disturbing” session come before polling day, the Lib Dems “might have been in trouble”.
To John Kress in Watchman“Sometimes this was a fluctuating Ed. Other times, a confused Ed. An Ed who couldn’t believe what had happened to him.”
Tom Beck in times “I looked into those same eyes myself,” says Sir Ed, his eyes narrowed and his jaw clenched. “As the man held himself up to be launched into a giant pendulum 80 feet in the air. I saw them swerve around a high corner at 68mph and turn into the only four-barrel roller coaster section anywhere in Europe. It’s only now that I realise I’ve never seen the man so nervous.”
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