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Dishonesty among ministers

mercredi 9 juin 2021 à 02:00

Bogus Johnson's former advisor said he had witnessed dishonesty among the ministers, but has failed to give any evidence of dishonesty.

Plan to distribute patients data

mercredi 9 juin 2021 à 02:00

The plan for the NHS to distribute patient data (or use of it) has been postponed for reconsideration.

It's very useful to make medical records available for medical research, but there must be a very strict system to prevent it from being used to judge people or discriminate between them.

"Sharing" is something that people do with people; let's not use that word for this.

Overlooking hostage practices

mercredi 9 juin 2021 à 02:00

Biden appears to overlook al-Sisi's practice of taking relatives of dissidents as hostages to intimidate them.

Abolishing HDP

mercredi 9 juin 2021 à 02:00

Erdoğan is now trying to entirely abolish the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party).

The party did well in an election, so Erdoğan launched a civil war against Kurds and announced victory. Then he held a new election in which the HDP did not do so well. Whether this was because nationalists were elated by the "victory" of Turkey over part of Turkey, or because some HDP voters were dead, I don't know.

Weakening environmental protection

mercredi 9 juin 2021 à 02:00

The Australian government plans to weaken environmental protection laws, and thus "fast-track extinctions."