Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Made-in-Madagascar herbal remedy for COVID-19 selling well

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It's not often that Madagascar makes it into the main international news. We were in the country a year or two ago while it was undergoi...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

Why beaches are so popular (and so overrated)

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I have never really understood the big attraction of beaches. During this pandemic, the big challenge in many jurisdictions is to stop beach...

Are lockdown protesters heroes or just selfish and ill-informed

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We've all seen images of the anti-lockdown protesters outside the legislatures of Anerican states like Michigan, Virginia, North Carolin...
Saturday, May 02, 2020

Trump's new press secretary seems to be as prone to lies as all the others

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Yet another fresh new face arrives to take up the unenviable position of White House Press Secretary, a job few people want, and still fewer...
Friday, May 01, 2020

I had forgotten all about fainting goats

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I am just reading a novel ( Fishbowl by Bradley Somers, as it happens) which makes a passing reference to something I knew about but had fo...

China returns to its confrontational bullying ways

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China started off the COVID-19 outbreak with a relatively positive image for its aoparently sharing details early, and a grudging respect fo...

Nunavut registers its first COVID-19 case

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The tiny remote Arctic community of Pond Inlet in Nunavut has just registered its first case of COVID-19 . In fact, the first case in the wh...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

How do you deal with a president who won't answer legitimate questions?

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Here's a good example of just why it's so difficult to take Donald Trump to task over the various mistruths and barefaced lies he ro...