Less Trump, more peace? B. Jay Cooper on his new life without Donald Trump’s every minute of lies and opinion about everything.
Furlough scheme: UK has no choice but to extend it, but there are serious risks.
Dr Alan Shipman || 5 min readThe Government needs a strong enough boom to ensure the re-opening of jobs that ends the need for further furloughs. But if jobs don’t return for long enough to repay their furlough cost, Sunak will be accused of spending lavishly just to postpone unemployment for a year.
No, we should not deny foreign nationals jobs in healthcare.
Dan Sohege || 5 min readI would rather be treated by someone based on their ability rather than their nationality, wouldn’t you?
Brexit, one year on. Where are we now?
Professor Paul James Cardwell || 9 min readThe UK’s departure from the EU has just marked its first birthday. Yet Brexit as a process is one which is likely to prove a neverending cycle of rapprochements, spats, agreements and renewal of those agreements.
Random(ish) thoughts.
3 min readLess Trump, more peace? B. Jay Cooper on his new life without Donald Trump’s every minute of lies and opinion about everything.
UK COVID-19 Data: 25 February 2021.
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Front pages — 25 February 2021.
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Brexit, one year on. Where are we now?
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No, we should not deny foreign nationals jobs in healthcare.
5 min readI would rather be treated by someone based on their ability rather than their nationality, wouldn’t you?
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Exclusive [PMP] Members: Empathy fatigue as exit strategy?
7 min readAs we hopefully move a step closer to ending the coronavirus pandemic, our leaders and we must resist the voices of division who care for nothing but themselves, and avoid becoming numb to empathy.
Imagine what could happen if Africa were truly to celebrate its art (and philosophy).
3 min readNo one can accuse the African Union (AU) of overpromising and under-delivering. But imagine if it really meant what it said. Imagine if Africa truly embraced its own philosophy.
Vaccination isn’t behind the fall in Covid-19 infections. The lockdown is.
7 min readWhy Boris Johnson must resist the pressure by libertarians of all types and stripes to lift all Covid-19 lockdown restrictions early.
Why be such a pain?
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Higher Education and Brexit.
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The only exit strategy is elimination.
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Too much democracy for this little island?
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Brexit – The ludicrous proposition.
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Random(ish) thoughts.
3 min readLess Trump, more peace? B. Jay Cooper on his new life without Donald Trump’s every minute of lies and opinion about everything.
Ofcom, CGTN and BBC row, the latest nail in Britain’s golden era coffin with China.
5 min readWhen Ofcom cancels CGTN’s license to broadcast in the UK, China’s Foreign Ministry aims both barrels at the BBC. This is going to get worse: it is a metaphor for something much bigger, and the latest nail in Britain’s golden era coffin with China.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: The real thing.
4 min readThere is a politician who says what she honestly believes: Marjorie Taylor Greene. There is no trying to figure out where she is coming from. She lays it right out there...
Step 1 was, a new President. Step 2 is, restore news media trust.
8 min readThe mainstream US news media must play a meaningful role in preventing the next attempt to overthrow American democracy.