Daniel Hardaker
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Having visited China and North Korea, I fear Britain is sleepwalking into the same mentality
The Telegraph
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Thumbing through the English translation of Kim Jong Il's On the Art of Cinema in a Pyongyang bookshop, it was clear that, while turgid, Kim's ramblings about the nature of authenticity are at least rationally argued and concern complex themes.
Germany's UberMcCarthyist crackdown on critics of its Covid decrees is remarkable
The Telegraph
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There is little of the apologetic dithering of Her Majesty's Government. Threats like 'Masks on or we close the area down' are preferred
Here in Armenia, locals are baffled by the West's lockdown-loop mentality
The Telegraph
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Covid hysteria is unlikely to gain a foothold in a country buffeted by such long-standing existential threats Hitchhiking is popular in Armenia - crime in the country is low. One driver and his friends, on the road back from the crumbling Soviet resorts and spectacular mountains surrounding Lake Sevan, treat me to a blast of Armenian dance-pop with the windows down.
Busy bars and banyas in Belarus - where Covid is largely ignored
The Telegraph
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Nightclubs, bars, restaurants, cafes are all full. Museums, galleries, churches and theatres are open, with no distancing requirements, Perspex barriers or relentless anti-bacterial spraying. There is no suggestion, either, of any interruption to the banja steam baths, a social ritual attended as a group, naked, temperatures exceeding 90 degrees Celsius and punctuated by beer breaks and rolls in the snow - or a blast with a hosepipe in the summer.
The unreason of Germany's Covid propaganda
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It offers humour and threats, but no rational case for lockdown. The German federal government's ' Besondere Helden ' (special heroes) lockdown propaganda campaign was recently celebrated in the Anglo Twittersphere. It features older Germans reflecting, from some unspecified point in the future, on their heroic contributions to the battle against coronavirus.
Belarus: the land Covid forgot
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Its autocratic president and his opponents have all resisted pandemic panic. Belarus, the spotlessly clean, neo-classical avenues of Minsk in particular, is in the grip of mass unrest. Balaclava-clad snatch-squads roam the streets in unmarked vans. Twitchy 18-year-old army conscripts, nervously clutching rusting AK74s, stand across from defiant and jubilant protesters.
Saki's 1913 When William Came is the best guide to a Britain transformed overnight. | Daniel Hard...
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How adrift we are to be wrestling with something which, especially in England, none of our forebearers has ever had to deal with. As there is absolutely no precedent for a medical-Stakhanovite England steaming into the horror of perma-biosecurity panopticon living, let me, then, suggest Saki's 1913