Yes, is the short answer. The longer answer is below, but first, a recap of the disaster that’s unfurled since the US President decided to pull out the remaining American troops: The Taliban captured Afghanistan’s third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country’s embattled government just weeks before […]
Regular readers will remember that earlier in the summer, yours truly regularly pointed to Florida and Texas as examples of places which had abandoned Covid restrictions completely, and were doing just fine. It would be dishonest, then, not to cover the fact that in recent weeks, both states have experienced a mega surge in cases […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when big tech companies asserted that they were committed to freedom of speech, with reasonable limits on things like inciting hatred, or being overtly racist. If that was true, and all that they did, there would be very little controversy about so-called “big tech censorship”. But of […]
Total Swedish Covid deaths at this writing: 14,651.
Language is a weapon for campaigners for the right to die in the UK
Here it is folks: The perfect story to determine whether you really care about privacy and freedoms and the danger of big corporate power, or whether you are just fine with companies monitoring our every move, so long as it targets people we don’t like: Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of […]
Long before David Attenborough brought his soothing voice to the explication of animal behaviour for the BBC Life series, the North American television public had been introduced to the majesty and oddities of the natural world through Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. I remember lying on my stomach in my grandparent’s living room watching programs about lions and […]
In the middle of the European Cup, one wisecrack commented on the surprising health of the Swedish football team who managed to field a full 11 despite the reported plague winds howling through each and every Swedish hamlet. AdzStats???? ????????/???????? on Twitter: “I’m confused. Watching Sweden vs Ukraine, but I’m not sure how it’s possible […]
The hashtag #NoThankYou has been trending worldwide all day. Here’s why. The Olympic Games have attracted a new kind of controversy this year as women faced what many of them saw as unfair competition from transgender athletes who were born male. One of those athletes is New Zealand weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who at 43 years old, would normally […]
Speaking to Portlaoise County Council personnel during his tenure as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox lauded the EU’s commitment to liberal democracy and its institutions. By contrast, he described in graphic terms the charade that was China’s National Peoples’ Congress. It was, he observed, a bloated assembly of ‘yacking donkeys’ whose brays might be heard […]
As always, it is useful to begin these stories by noting what Michael Osterholm, senior Covid advisor to President Biden, and expert in infectious diseases, is not saying in the clip below. He is not saying that all facemasks are useless. Nor is he saying that we should all stop wearing them. What he is […]
A new investigation has questioned the Covid-19 origin story as it was presented by China and retailed by most of the world’s scientific, media and state authorities. Its publication comes as reports from China point to another apparent wave of infections from the Delta variant. The report released by the ranking Republican member of the […]