Uber has lost. What happens next?

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Uber has lost. What happens next?

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Feb 19, 2021

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Coming up today: What Uber’s loss in the Supreme Court means for the gig economy, why Facebook was right to ban news in Australia and we go inside the UK’s controversial Covid-19 challenge trial
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Feb 19, 2021

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