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John Scott QC, chairman of the independent advisory group on law enforcement during the coronavirus crisis, ruled that a decision by Police Scotland earlier this month to avoid confrontation with football fans flouting pandemic rules was proportionate and within the law. The force had come under fire from some politicians …

More remarkably, while embracing the cause of global democracy, Blinken appeared to have little time for democracy as practiced in the US.  The goal of Blinken’s speech, delivered virtually to the American people on Wednesday, was to introduce the Biden administration’s newly-issued “Interim National Security Strategic Guidance,” that is supposedly …

The apparent mea culpa came from Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a state Democratic Party meeting on Wednesday, where she acknowledged denying a request for the data from the New York Senate last summer because Cuomo’s team feared it would be “used against us,”according to the New York …

The agency’s immunization and vaccines chief, Professor Katherine O’Brien, said she wanted to emphasize the “importance of really crushing transmission” of the virus in order to guarantee the “maximum impact” of vaccines. “The risk of variants relative to the vaccines is ever greater when the transmission is very high in …

While Britain’s Tory government wobbles under the weight of its own incompetence, one of the oddest features of its half-baked response to the Covid crisis has been the gaping loopholes it’s handed to citizens who have the wit, guile and means to ‘get out of Dodge’.  Like the organiser of …

The emergency bill signed on Sunday night allows for funding of the government for the next 24 hours. The measure prevents a government shutdown and gives Congress more time to pass a Covid-19 relief package along with a government funding bill. Democrats and Republicans have been embroiled in a bitter fight …

“Pass the potatoes, not Covid,” Hancock said in a tweet on Wednesday morning, urging Denverites to “stay at home as much as you can” and “avoid travel” for the holiday, among other recommendations amid the health crisis. About 30 minutes after the tweet, however, Hancock boarded a plane bound for …

The host of RT’s Keiser Report sat down with the British politician, who is set to run for MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in a possible by-election, to discuss his political goals and the rapid development of cryptocurrencies. Galloway believes that sooner or later, not only those countries “hunted” …

“We did not choose the path of a complete lockdown of society, because we had other arguments for a systematic response to a pandemic,” explained Olivia Wigzell. The official was speaking at the conference ‘Pandemic 2020: Challenges, Solutions, Consequences’ held in Moscow this week.  “We were very afraid, we feared …

“I’ve not seen any projections of four million [unemployed materializing] but certainly we know that there are some 700,000 extra people that are already unemployed,” Eustice told Sky on Thursday. “It’s for precisely that reason that we are trying to avoid full lockdown.” The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast in …