By William J. Furney It seems hard to imagine that just a few short decades ago, European holiday favourite Spain was a full-on dictatorship, ruled by Francisco Franco, and the
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By William J. Furney The omnipotent might and financial clout of the Communist Party in China means the country’s leaders can do as they please, and if the wider world
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By William J. Furney In the end, it wasn’t so much fake news as a bogus leader who refused to accept election results, sowed doubt, confusion and chaos — and
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By William J. Furney I wasn’t so much invited into her apartment as ushered in without much of a choice, or a mask. “Kein problem,” she said, but it could
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By William J. Furney What has China done with a citizen journalist reporting on the early days of the coronavirus pandemic from the epicentre in Wuhan? Praised her efforts at
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By William J. Furney If there’s one thing many of us have learned this year, it’s a big lesson in humility. For all our freedoms and liberties, and desires to
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By William J. Furney Mind control. A fake pandemic. A global conspiracy engineered by the elite to gain even more power and cash reserves. After all, who are these people
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By William J. Furney If you’re giving out awards to “people of the year”, in this of all years, it probably shouldn’t take you long to realise who is most
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By William J. Furney Dear Jesus How’s it going? From your vantage-point in the sky, or perhaps another dimension, since those barbaric Romans crucified you over 2,000 years ago, how
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By William J. Furney Families are having to pay many hundreds of euros for negative coronavirus tests to get into places like Spain, placing an additional burden on them in
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