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       1. Don’t test Britain, Ben Wallace warns Vladimir Putin

       Ben Wallace has warned Vladimir Putin not to “test” the United Kingdom, as the Defence Secretary indicated that he could pour more funds into the light weapons wreaking havoc on Russian tanks and aircraft in Ukraine.

       In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Wallace said that the Russian president would be seriously mistaken if he “underestimated” Britain’s resolve to face down Putin’s aggression. Read the full story.

       2. Russian tanks stuck in the mud ‘an example of poor planning’ for Ukraine invasion

       The stalled Russian advance to the north of Kyiv is a perfect example of “poor planning and poor execution”, Western officials have said.

       Russian ground forces “are not performing in the way they believed they would, how they previously have trained or how they would pride themselves to be”. Read the full story.

       3. Boris Johnson warned against signing a new deal with Iran that will ‘embolden’ terrorists

       Boris Johnson has been warned against signing a “weak” new deal with Iran that would involve sanctions being lifted from the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

       A UK diplomat at talks in Vienna said that negotiators are “close” to a new agreement that would limit Iran's nuclear programme. Read the full story.

       4. Britain’s Covid experts ‘abandoned their objectivity and misled with alarming models’

       Scientists abandoned their objectivity, "misled" with alarming models and failed to appreciate the damage lockdown would cause, a government adviser has claimed in a damning indictment of Britain’s pandemic response.

       Prof Mark Woolhouse, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said that the Government’s advisory system was dominated by clinicians and public health specialists who “weren’t looking at the bigger picture”. Read the full story.

       5. NHS child gender clinic forced into U-turn over 'bombardment of wokery'

       England's only NHS child gender clinic has been forced to remove the Black Lives Matter logo from new staff email signatures after whistleblowers objected to a “bombardment” of wokery.

       Clinicians at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust were last month urged to add the banner to their emails, displaying the controversial group’s emblem of a fist set against the backdrop of a rainbow flag. Read the full story.

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