The other day I watched as someone posted a fairly anodyne comment onto a social media platform. It was about a local survey of traffic schemes. A tonne of abuse erupted; some people started metaphorically dancing around the boxing ring, their linguistic fists bunched and at the ready. …
With impeccable timing, the BBC has released secretly recorded phone calls between Tunisia’s former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and trusted advisors, 11 years after people power forced him to flee the country.
Ben Ali, who died in exile in Saudi Arabia in September 2019, left Tunisia on January 14…
Listen to the full broadcast of NPR’s January 11 interview with Donald Trump and you enter the metaverse.
It becomes clear that nearly 12 months after the former president was reluctantly forced to vacate the White House, he lives (or at least pushes) an alternate reality. …
Vaccine sceptics sometimes label government policies that bar the unvaccinated from restaurants and public buildings as vaccine apartheid.
What are they referring to?
Vaccine and mask mandates at Broadway shows in New York?
Covid passports, as imposed by Greece and France as early as July?
Italy’s requirement since October for…
Journalists generally gets a stream of useless press releases, which aren’t even redeemed by humour or the wit of the writing. But a British rubbish removal company’s recent, very newsy pitch for attention was riveting. It came off the back of Blackberry’s January 4 announcement that its iconic devices, which…
Will Britain become “one of the first major economies to demonstrate to the world how you transition from pandemic to endemic”?
I ask the question. A British cabinet minister made the statement.
Raising the prospect of a further cut to the isolation period for people who test positive for Covid-19…
On Sunday, January 9, Britain woke to news of Kate Middleton’s 40th birthday and the BBC dutifully broadcast it to the world. Everyone gawped at the three new photos officially released to mark the Duchess of Cambridge ‘s big birthday. …
“What a drag it is getting old,” the Rolling Stones once sang, and perhaps no more so than for Joe Biden, who in November will become the first sitting US president to turn 80.
Though Mr Biden continues to say he’s running for re-election it’s hard to believe he would…
On January 6, Italy made a coronavirus vaccination mandatory for everybody over the age of 50. Ansa reported that people who don’t comply will face a fine of €100. Oh, and the government decided to bar those over 50 from work if they are not vaccinated or recently recovered from…
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a 26-year-old Frenchman with an interest in politics, political philosophy and international affairs, made a nine-month trip to the United States. He travelled extensively through the sprawling country and the result was De la Démocratie en Amérique, two volumes on the laws, habits and mores…
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