Year: 2021

The Guardian says India and China will “have to explain themselves to poor nations” after watering down the Glasgow climate pact.

The Guardian says Covid booster vaccines will be extended to those aged between 40 and 49 in England and Scotland.

The Metro says Boris Johnson will hold a Covid press conference this afternoon after warning a ‘blizzard’ of infections is spreading across Europe.

The Metro says Yungblud has addressed the calls for him to take over from Harry Styles playing Boy George in an upcoming biopic.

The Independent says Model Sarah McNeilly has claimed that Marilyn Manson began abusing her and isolating her from her loved ones just weeks after they became romantically involved.

A taxi explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday has officially been declared a terror incident by police.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial will start on Monday after a 15-month wait. The British socialite is on trial for sex trafficking children, perjury and the enticement of minors while she was a close associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. 

Most national and international news sites are preparing for the trial and it will undoubtedly be heavily covered. For the start of the trial the papers are discussing whether her lawyers ‘fears’ over her lack of likeability, apparent evidence from the prosecution that links her to trafficking women ‘to more powerful men’ and the looming shadow of Jeffery Epstein.

Some of the papers are strangely taking a more sympathetic tone despite her serious charges, including reports on her ‘living hell’ that is her life in prison. 

The Independent says Ghislaine Maxwel.l has claimed she is given food with maggots inside and has stopped showering because of “creepy guards”

The Guardian says When jury selection starts in earnest on Tuesday for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court.

The Daily Mirror says Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team have worries over her performance in front of a jury after dummy panels found her “wholly unlikeable”.