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South-to-North Water Transfer Project: China’s Redistribution of Natural Resources
What should you do when all of your country’s water is in the south, but all of your country’s people are in the north? Isn’t it obvious? Move the rivers up to the north! […]
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Brazil battles coronavirus with a Chinese vaccine even the Chinese concede could be better
Brazilians line up outside Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro last month to receive China’s CoronaVac vaccine. (Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images) RIO DE JANEIRO — The news received scant notice in the mainstream media, but it quickly gained a foothold in … Continue reading
150,000 Hearts Representing Lives Lost to Coronavirus in the UK Line the COVID Memorial Wall in London
Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in … Continue reading
Why we don’t need to pay for Covid because we already have
I get really annoyed by all the economists going around saying that we have to work out how to pay for Covid when the simple fact is that we already have. When we realise that we will all be a … Continue reading
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Why are the Tories so worried?
You’d think that a government with a big majority and high on the polls would have little to worry about, and yet the Tories are showing signs of being very worried. How long is it before failings on Brexit and … Continue reading
Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism | Kottke
posted by Jason Kottke Apr 02, 2021 Writer Ted Chiang (author of the fantastic Exhalation) was recently a guest on the Ezra Klein Show. The conversation ranged widely — I enjoyed his thoughts on superheroes — but his comments … Continue reading
Ian Hislop: Why Boris Johnson’s ‘vindictive’ government could harm the BBC
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Tagged an Hislop, comparison, editor of Private Eye and star of BBC comedy Have I Got News For You, England, Hislop discusses his concerns about the future of the BBC, is interviewed by William Turvill of Press Gazette in January 2021 (read the full interview here: https://pressgazette.co.uk/ian-hislop...). In this clip, Politics, which he feels is under threat from Boris Johnson's 'vindictive' government.
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How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump
It wasn’t always this way for the Republican Party. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q&As with all the Vox creators, a badge that levels up over … Continue reading
Race commission report: the rights and wrongs
Raminder Kaur Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex Gill Margaret Hague Professor Emerita of Violence Against Women Studies, University of Bristol The widely contested report has caused outrage across the UK. But is it inaccurate? Confusion and … Continue reading
“Labour is at risk of becoming irrelevant”: CWU’s Dave Ward
Dave Ward leads the Communications Workers’ Union – one of Britain’s biggest unions. He tells me how workers applauded by politicians and bosses have been screwed over by them, why a ‘New Deal for Workers’ is overdue, how the union … Continue reading
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