By William J. Furney Suddenly, “super-busy” people (or people who like to tell us they are) everywhere have little or nothing to do, and they can’t cope, with the lack
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By William J. Furney Suddenly, “super-busy” people (or people who like to tell us they are) everywhere have little or nothing to do, and they can’t cope, with the lack
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The United Nations, which was set up after World War 2, to bring about peace in the world, says we are in World War 3. As
Continue readingBy William J. Furney No one wants to hear it, but all the global health crises in recent years have been due to zoonotic diseases — pathogens that have jumped
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Britain asked its people this week to stop going out to eat and drink, as the coronavirus death toll in the Brexit nation of four countries
Continue readingBy William J. Furney With over 5,500 people dead and nearly 148,000 cases of infection (including yours truly, and it was relentless and brutal) worldwide so far, and rapidly climbing,
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The Chinese regime has lied and suppressed information about the new coronavirus on such a scale that the mandarins in the halls of power in Beijing
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The United Kingdom has become so undesirable that even the royals are bailing. Forget Brexit — all eyes are now firmly on Megxit. The four-nation country
Continue readingBy William J. Furney A judge in England has ruled that veganism is “important” and deserving of respect, and that he was “satisfied overwhelmingly that ethical veganism does constitute a
Continue readingBy William J. Furney It doesn’t matter that Donald John Trump will most likely survive attempts to topple him, after the Senate votes to acquit the contentious American leader in
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Boris Johnson’s “extraordinary” success, to use his own post-victory description of his election gamble, is testament to the power of the simple slogan — trotting the
Continue readingBy William J. Furney North Korea, the most isolated country in the world, has leaders who are big on bombastic image but critically short on vital substance. The attention-hungry totalitarian
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Almost everywhere I go on my travels, all I see are enormous people carrying enormous bags and dining on huge meals and downing waterfalls of drinks.
Continue readingBy William J. Furney, in Barcelona It’s past midnight on Monday in the Catalonian capital Barcelona, where nine independence leaders were jailed by the Spanish Supreme Court earlier in the
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Oil, it turns out, is not just a killer for the environment, unleashing pent-up carbons through its powering of transport and everything else we need to
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Whether Greta Thunberg wins the Nobel Peace Prize next week for her environmental campaigning is irrelevant — because the Swedish organisation with its money from the
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