Portrait of the week: Curfew street parties, Trump’s taxes and a bone-eating vulture

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More than a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom (three-fifths of the Welsh, a third of the Scots and two-thirds of those in northern England) were put under harsher coronavirus restrictions. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, amid a flurry of local lockdowns, found himself unable to state the coronavirus restrictions suddenly imposed on the north-east. He said ‘six in a home, six in hospitality’ could meet, though the law said that members of different households could not meet at all indoors. Universal laws, brought in by statutory instruments, prohibited eating or drinking in bars, restaurants or clubs after 10 p.m. In cities such as York and Liverpool, people thronged the street after closing time, dancing and drinking from bottles; others fetched more from supermarkets. Police in Scotland broke up more than 300 house parties over the weekend. The Houses of Parliament said it would not serve alcohol after 10 p.m.,