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December 19, 2021 Commentary

Coronavirus Two Years On: Prepare for Another Two

Almost two years after the pandemic started, we’re back to where we started — and may be worse off than ever.

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July 25, 2021 Commentary

What’s Bugging China?

By William J. Furney It’s the most difficult challenge of our time, and there’s one question every country on the planet wants an answer to — except one, unless it

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July 11, 2021 Commentary

A Summer of Hope, and a Winter of Despair

By William J. Furney So far it’s mostly been a typical washout of a summer in England, which should surprise no one living there, but still it does. A few

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May 16, 2021 Commentary

Introduce Beefy Meat Tax to Prevent Another Pandemic

By William J. Furney The pandemic we’re still embroiled in, more than a year on, is this century’s “Chernobyl moment”, says a report into the global health catastrophe published this

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April 4, 2021 Commentary

Preparing for the Next Pandemic but Not Prepared to Ditch Meat

By William J. Furney Almost everyone agrees it’s a case of when, not if, another catastrophic pandemic will erupt, killing millions more and bringing the world to a shuddering halt

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January 10, 2021 Commentage

Frau Spiegl Needs Some Help

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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January 3, 2021 Commentary

China’s Dark Zhang Zhan Corona Moment

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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December 27, 2020 Commentary

2020: A Year of Humility

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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December 13, 2020 Commentary

‘People of the Year’ Are Healthcare and Key Workers and Coronavirus Vaccine Developers (Not Politicians Yet to Take Office)

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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November 29, 2020 Commentage

Waiting to Exhale (without a Mask)

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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