'We came too late' "We don't have the capacity or the manpower to respond to all the comments," Ms Hartley said. irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru We've been hearing that Conservative MP and Penny Mordaunt supporter George Freeman has urged Mordaunt to step aside as a leadership contender, and make a deal with Rishi Sunak. In the first year of Covid, Prof Yang says, the lockdowns made sense. They were brief and allowed life in China to carry on. There was even pride at how the country was handling the pandemic so much better than the West. "That's no longer the case," he says. They believe it indicates an "if we can't have it, no-one can" approach. In 2013, an image went viral appearing to show a room of university students in Bangkok taking test papers while wearing "ear flaps" - sheets of paper stuck to either side of their head to obscure their vision. Nothing that Mao would recognise, Prof Karl says.