Tag: lockdown

Water Cannon but Whites Only

Things got heated when a massive Covid-19 sceptic march in the German city of Frankfurt was met with a counter-protest by notorious Antifa rowdies. The police had to muscle in too, and on this occasion using water cannon to separate the sides and making arrests.

MPs Leaping off the Gravy Train

Perhaps fearing the long arm of the law, old-Etonian Boris Johnson faces a Tory uprising as 50 MPs join new resistance group. The embattled public schoolboy faces another Tory uprising as 50 MPs join a new resistance group calling for an end to coronavirus lockdown measures.

Not a Country of Sissies

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says the severity of the coronavirus pandemic is exaggerated, urging his compatriots to stop being sissies in the face of Covid-19 and pointing out that ‘all of us are going to die one day.’ The is growing cynicism over the profits to be made […]

Eureka! An Honest Member of Parliament

‘The greatest want of the world is the want of men, men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.’ – Ellen G. White.

Debtor’s Revenge The Survivor’s Manual

As the lockdown is removed crisis payments by autocratic regimes will cease. However, the jobs lost will stay lost. As the government grapples with the challenge of an exit strategy from lockdown, many people are anxious about a looming financial cliff edge. What happens when the package of measures to support wages and reduce the burden of household bills comes to an end?