To all intents and purposes, Emmanuel Macron’s France is closed and in total darkness. Life as the French knew it has ended. Everyone, from 7 pm is locked in their homes. Never in world history, not even during wars and great plagues, have entire nation’s peoples been imprisoned in their homes.
Lockdowns are unlikely to be needed again as Britain learns to treat coronavirus like flu, Prof Chris Whitty has said. England’s chief medical officer said that up to 25,000 people die in a bad flu year without anyone noticing and that accepting some Covid deaths would be the price of keeping schools and business open and allowing people to live a ‘whole life’.
The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians’ individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
NOTE: Story translated from the original German by Gerry Frederiks. Frau Paula Hitler, the elder sister of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, penned the following statement 12 years after the death of her brother.
It’s no secret that Spanish authorities are planning to come down hard on British citizens over-staying the 90-day limit, but one expat couple experienced the ultimate nightmare at Alicante-Elche airport after following to the letter everything that the UK government website told them to do. Speaking exclusively to Euro Weekly News, the distraught Brits told of their distress and being shouted at by officials at Alicante airport before being unceremoniously dumped back on the same plane they arrived in on and flown back to the UK.
If your brand has attracted only mockery and mirth then simply change the name of your brand so that bad vibes about it disappear. This appears to be the marketing strategy adopted by AstraZeneca, whose vaccines should be labelled with the skull and crossbones.
THE EU IS STARTING TO CRUMBLE. Brussels is hyper-anxious and on red on alert as momentum surges for Eurexit, a coalition of national unity for a Europe of sovereign but mutually cooperative groups from SIX (and growing) EU countries.
A black deputy mayor of Paris, Audrey Pulvar, sparked controversy on online media after she said White people (natural Europeans) should remain ‘silent spectators’ if they attend meetings where people of colour discuss racism.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Rally party, has indicated that her first decision in the event she is elected president following upcoming elections would be to hold an immigration referendum. Border control and tax reform aimed at easing the pressure on the middle classes would also be priorities.
Four Weddings and a Funeral star has condemned the hapless UK government for its handling of the coronavirus crisis on numerous occasions.
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