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Apparently a "covidiot," according to the online Health website Health.com, can be defined using a number of dictionary and urban dictionary definitions. Written in July 2020, they offered: Macmillan Dictionary - Urban Dictionary - "Someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety. A person who hoards goods, denying them from their neighbors." "Someone who behaves in a stupid way that risks spreading the infectious disease Covid-19." The Health website largely agrees with these definitions. However they embellish them somewhat and add: "Basically, a covidiot doesn't tak...

In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of traditional social democracy. Born of the radical Left in Marx’s own time, social democrats worked, sometimes with remarkable success, to improve the living standards of working people by accommodating the virtues of capitalism. Today, that kind of social democracy—learned at home from my immigrant grandparents and from the late Michael Harrington, one time head of the American Socialist Party—is all but dead. This tradition was, in retrospect, perhaps ...

Deutsche Bank sharply criticises the “dishonest debate” with which the EU is selling its “Green Deal” to the people of Europe. The massive risks of the project for prosperity, the economic system and democracy itself should not be concealed, but should be addressed openly. Eric Heymann, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Research, warns that Europe’s Green Deal and its goal of climate neutrality by 2050 threatens a European mega-crisis, leading to “noticeable loss of welfare and jobs”. And he warns: It won’t work without “a certain degree of eco-dictatorship”. The analys...

Deutsche Bank sharply criticises the "dishonest debate" with which the EU is selling its "Green Deal" to the people of Europe. The massive risks of the project for prosperity, the economic system and democracy itself should not be concealed, but should be addressed openly. Eric Heymann, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Research, warns that Europe's Green Deal and its goal of climate neutrality by 2050 threatens a European mega-crisis, leading to "noticeable loss of welfare and jobs". And he warns: It won't work without "a certain degree of eco-dictatorship". The analyst describes it as du...

15 Jan 2021 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is becoming ‘more and more obsessed’ with COP26 (the United Nations climate conference which Britain is hosting later this year). ‘The green agenda is not just a load of green nonsense,’ he claims. ‘If you do it right, it’s the opportunity to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.’ "The green agenda is not just a load of green nonsense… if you do it right, it's the opportunity to create hundreds of thousands of jobs" Looking ahead to COP26, Boris Johnson says he is becoming "more and more obsessed with what we can do"https://t...