News Round-Up
29 September 2024
by Toby Young
Iโm Not Sure Lockdown Worked, Admits Boris Johnson
28 September 2024
by Toby Young
...direct shots fired because the situation was life-threatening,” she said. Worth reading in full. Stop Press: Michael P. Senger has posted a tweet showing Dutch police shooting at protestors. https://twitter.com/michaelpsenger/status/1461898361003384838?s=11...
...that firmly commits to almost nothing. Plenty of “urges”, “welcomes” and “recognises”, but actual, bomb proof obligations, there are practically none. Asked to ban all fossil fuels within less than...
...from home, those in relatively low-paid occupations (such as delivery drivers, supermarket workers and care-home assistants) continued their essential work in the real world. Many other people, particularly the young...
...said. Temporary measures for completing medical certificates of cause of death during the pandemic were lifted in March 2022. The current official requirements, set by HM Passport Office , state:...
...justifications (“well, I walked a lot today”, “I won’t eat anything sweet tomorrow”, “I’ve been under a lot of stress so I deserve a treat”, etc.) so as not to...
...research”. They are especially concerned that “people can be harmed indirectly” by research that “inadvertently… stigmatises individuals or human groups”. Such research “may be discriminatory, racist, sexist, ableist, or homophobic”...
...originally placed with the preprint server ResearchGate but was removed on the grounds that “the content may expose to harm, potential legal liability, or in breach of ...
...word ‘ferret’ is furittus, Latin for ‘little thief’. So on the one hand we have the apparently strong (and foolish) figure, who ‘doubles down’; and on the other we have...
...the deployment of the technology was “scandalous, rotten, incredible”; for Danny Murphy it was “incompetence at its highest level” (surely “lowest”?); for Alan Shearer it was simply “beyond terrible”. One...
...the country was “poisoned” with “colonial arrogance” and “dreamy jingoism”. Another piece accused Britain of having a “racist heart”. Earlier this week, it used Liz Truss’s arrival in No 10...
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