“[What] has happened to academic freedom and freedom of speech? There is nothing in this article that is ‘false,’” Carl Heneghan, the director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, said on Friday. He posted a screenshot of Facebook flagging his article for the Spectator magazine as ‘False …
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The key point about the move to electric cars announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as part of his 10-point plan to make the UK carbon-neutral by 2050, is that it is more a signal of aspirational worthiness than a credible project. It is a barely disguised move by the UK …
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I hope you all enjoyed those precious few weeks of semi-freedom. I, like all Britons, will look back on the summer of 2020 fondly. A time when we all dressed like dandy highwaymen to go shopping and surrendered our personal details to pub staff wearing visors and wielding thermometer pistols. …
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Dubbed a ‘freedom walk’, the rally hit the streets of central Melbourne earlier on Saturday. Police geared up for a massive turnout of protesters, sealing off the Tan Running Track and the Shrine of Remembrance – a venue of last weekend’s protest. Some 1,500 people declared their willingness to attend …
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It’s a measure of these fractious times that what was intended as a peaceful protest has resulted in ludicrous name-calling and bickering. One side is being labelled terrorists, while the other is accusing their rivals of being worse than Nazis, which shows how far we’ve descended. The bitterness was sparked …
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People began gathering in London’s Trafalgar Square around noon and then marched to the Houses of Parliament to show opposition to the ongoing shutdowns, introduced as part of the UK’s response to the pandemic. © REUTERS/Henry Nicholls The rally, called under the slogans of “No More Lockdowns – No Social …
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Quarantine tired: why restrictions were removed at the time when the number of cases Russia has almost caught up with America Putin gave the citizens a bit of freedom, while disobedience never entered them in the habit. “Remember the day that we would not have worked, but it worked. So, …
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The pandemic coronavirus Russia is a new challenge for humanity in the camp style — you die today and I tomorrow. The communication on the isolation narrows to view social networks and house chat messenger. Yesterday, the friendly neighbors, wearing masks, stopped to smile at the meeting (still not visible) …
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“A policy of establishing total state control over information” In Russia recorded more than 438 thousand cases of interference in the freedom of the Internet. Report In Russia in 2019 was recorded over 438 thousand cases of interference in the freedom of the Internet, the vast majority of which (more …
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Lipetsk MP announced the establishment of the party of regions to “protect ordinary Russians” The Deputy of the Lipetsk regional Parliament, coordinator of the regional branches of “Open Russia” Oleg Homutinnikova has applied to the Ministry of justice for registration of a “Federal party”. According to him, the party created …
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