One of the most effective public service messages of the coronavirus pandemic must a musical number by Ugandan artists Bobi Wine and Nubian Li. The reggae-style “Corona Virus Alert” is so catchy it makes hand-washing and staying home seem like the coolest things to do. The latest stats on Uganda show that the country has […]
Last year Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman accused of blasphemy against Islam, arrived to make a new life in Canada with her family. After being convicted and sentenced to death, she had languished in jail for ten years. Her lawyers received death threats. But Asia Bibi is far from being the only Pakistani Christian […]
Population density and the proportion of society that is elderly quickly emerged as significant factors in the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing has been widely used as an effective way to avoid transmission, but is complex to implement in a very densely populated city without draconian government action. More than 55 percent of the world’s population is thought to […]
It was once understood that the purpose of college, among other things, was to expose an individual to the wonderful world of academia, a place with a wide variety of beliefs and opinions. The pursuit of knowledge was best facilitated by differing viewpoints, and politics were either irrelevant to the discussion or a cause for […]
With the Covid-19 pandemic dominating headlines, many important issues have been forgotten or shelved. One of those is the plight of Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities in Xinjiang in northwestern China. I’d like to clarify the often-conflicting reports on Xinjiang and drill down into the demographic statistics to give an accurate picture of the balance […]
They’re averaging 2000 deaths a day, and five million new job losses a week, now. Here are the numbers for this week alone: "The modest decline in initial jobless claims to 5,508,500 last week, from 6,615,000, means that the unemployment rate is now on track to hit somewhere between 15% and 20% in April, well […]
The Guardian published the image above two months ago. A man lying dead in the streets in Wuhan, as people walk past. No wonder, then, that they missed so many dead people. They probably walked past another guy the very next day, and assumed it was just the same dead guy as yesterday. You have […]
Some of you are probably too young to remember what happened all the way back in January of 2020, which feels like it was about two decades ago at this point, but it’s worth remembering anyway: Former Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has rejected claims that “shadowy figures” play a key role in the running […]
Because reactions to the President of the United States are so polarised along culture war lines, the reaction to his announcement the day before yesterday that he would seek to suspend US funding of the world health organisation has broadly been about exactly what you might expect. “Global Fury”, reports the Irish Times: “Although the […]
Like we seen at the last election, people with accusations against Trump will be given wall-to-wall coverage, whereas the Reades of this world can go back to the drawing board as they seek justice for alleged assaults.
In my last post I looked at the end of the coronavirus and how the world will react in the light of China’s lies, threats and risky behaviour which has left so many people dead around the world and so much of the world’s economy in free-fall. Today I want to briefly discuss another impact […]
Coronavirus cases are now ‘soaring in care homes’, with around 2,200 care homes – one in seven – affected; Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty has ‘disclosed that outbreaks had been identified in almost 100 institutions in the past 24 hours’; with an infection rate of 13.5 per cent among the UK’s 17,000 care homes […]