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Debate resurfaces in dispute with Tory MPs and the child charity Barnardos
Barnardo’s hits back at Tory MPs upset by talk of ‘white privilege’ | Race | The Guardian
He wasn’t the only jingoist
“We will remember this moment as the day the UK led humanity’s charge against this disease,” tweeted Alok Sharma, the UK’s business secretary
A puppy for Christmas and coronavirus?
Breakingviews – Pet craze may pump up puppy-sized financial bubble | Reuters
The average price of a British pedigree is 1,875 pounds ($2,500). Breeders flooding the market just as economic hard times bite has all the ingredients of a canine crash.
Every Cavapoo puppy (a cross between a poodle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) listed on UK website Pets4Homes had almost 1,900 prospective buyers.
An English bulldog now costs 50% more than the average Brit’s monthly take-home pay.
$79 billion animal health giant Zoetis, whose shares hit a record high in November.
But what happens when the puppy bubble bursts?
Trump’s ‘legacy’ is going to be that he did not start any new wars and finished some.
The USA to withdraw its troops from Somalia
Trump orders US to pull troops from Somalia | US military | The Guardian
Perhaps i could have a response upon this reply defending MMT to one of my comments which i replied weakly (i think) to
Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers – News & Views – The Commons (commondreams.org)
The boom in the shares of U.S. technology giants is a bubble that will burst once interest rates increase or “over exuberance” in the tech story fades, Pascal Blanque, chief investment officer at asset manager Amundi said.
Tech stock boom a ‘bubble waiting to burst’: Amundi CIO | Reuters
“It’s a perfect bubble waiting to burst. It’s not if, but when,” Blanque told the Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit, adding that you “cannot justify the current valuations.”
Sweden, the darling of the anti-lockdown campaigners, re-evaluates its policies.
Swedes’ support for anti-lockdown stance slips amid rising Covid deaths | World news | The Guardian
confidence in authorities’ capacity to control the crisis had fallen sharply to 42% from 55% in October, while 44% of respondents said they felt not enough was being done to fight Covid-19, up from 31% the previous month. More than 80% of those surveyed said they were either “somewhat” or “very worried” that Sweden’s health service would not be able to cope
high schools will switch to distance learning for rest of term…Sweden last month introduced tougher restrictions, cutting its limit on attendance at public gatherings to eight people and announcing that bars and restaurants would not be allowed to serve alcohol after 10pm until the end of February.
Geo-political realities face Biden
China is greatest threat to freedom – US intelligence chief – BBC News
John Ratcliffe, the US top US intelligence official says China is the “greatest threat to democracy and freedom” since World War Two. The Director of National Intelligence said China had replaced Russia and counter-terrorism as the main focus focus of US intelligence activities.
Business trips to be exempt from quarantine
Quarantine rules to be relaxed for business travellers – BBC News
Performing arts workers, TV production staff, journalists and recently signed sports professionals will also be exempt
Sad isn’t it ttat we still have the jingoists who perceive progress as a race between nations.
Coronavirus: UK got vaccine first because it’s ‘a better country’, says Gavin Williamson – BBC News
The UK is getting a coronavirus vaccine first because it is a “much better country” than France, Belgium and the US, says Gavin Williamson, the education secretary.
Blinken’s appointment means continuation of Trump’s Israeli policies
Biden will unlikely borrow any of Trump’s divisive terminology, he will, most certainly, keep the spirit of the ‘Deal of the Century’ alive. The ‘Deal’ consisted of specific US measures aimed at validating Israel’s illegal claims over Occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and the delinking of Arab normalization with Israel from the subject of the Israeli occupation. None of this is likely to change even if the term ‘Deal of the Century’ is scrapped altogether.
Biden to continue Trump’s China trade policy
Biden says will not kill Phase 1 trade deal with China immediately: NYT | Reuters
David Feldman, director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, casts doubt on the IHRA.
‘The working definition’s indeterminacy will provide a standing invitation to individuals and organisations to bring allegations of antisemitism against students and lecturers. Not least because some individuals and advocacy groups genuinely and passionately believe that the movement to boycott Israel is inherently antisemitic.’
Greyhound racing has always meant putting down healthy animals but this article highlights the reality of this cruel ‘sport’
16,000 greyhounds are born in Ireland every year – the place where the British greyhound racing industry sources 83 per cent of its dogs. 6000 are culled because they aren’t fast enough.
Small-scale farmers in Chiapas are learning to raise crops and cattle without damaging the forest.
During the 1980s, there was a boom in dairy farming, which was far more profitable. Villagers let their cattle roam free in the La Sepultura Biosphere Reverse, with devastating consequences for the forest. And as the forest suffered, so did its people – from drought, and a decline in biodiversity and plants to forage.
Mexico: Forest-friendly dairy farming in Chiapas | Global Ideas | DW | 01.12.2020
