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Sign of decline

mardi 20 avril 2021 à 02:00

*Compulsory worship of national symbols is the sure sign of a culture in decline.*

Lifelong UK resident to be denied UK passport

mardi 20 avril 2021 à 02:00

The latest lifelong UK resident to be denied a UK passport is, ironically, a member of British nobility.

With his position, he won't suffer much difficulty — unlike the people who were forced to live in Jamaica for lack of records of living in Britain as children.

Private corruption of the state's work

mardi 20 avril 2021 à 02:00

The Tories have made private corruption of the state's work into normal practice.

Various aspects of the response to Covid-19 were contracted out to companies that didn't have the capacity to do the job at all. Almost everything that the UK government tried to do, failed. Vaccine production was the exception because the Tories didn't have the choice to hire unknown companies to make pharmaceuticals.

Putin to criminalize support for opposition

mardi 20 avril 2021 à 02:00

Putin plans to criminalize support for Navalny's opposition movement by arbitrarily designating it an "extremist group".

I've denounced for years the US practice of designating organizations as "terrorist" without holding a trial to prove it. When the US shows contempt for human rights, other countries are quick to follow the same path.

Covid-19 killing young, healthy people in Brazil

mardi 20 avril 2021 à 02:00

In Brazil, Covid-19 is killing lots of young, vigorous, formerly healthy people. It could be that the Brazilian variant is the explanation.

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