UK PM wanted to ‘just let people die’ – ex-adviser

Rishi Sunak and ex-PM Boris Johnson shared a laissez-faire attitude toward the coronavirus pandemic, according to Patrick Vallance UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wanted the government to “just let people die” rather than impose a second national lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, London’s former chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, told the government’s official Covid-19 inquiry…

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Pinochet wannabe? Argentina’s president-elect is not the libertarian he claims to be

Javier Milei says he is a freedom-loving anarcho-capitalist, but scratch him and a fascist bleeds through The far-right Argentine economist and so-called “libertarian” Javier Milei was elected president on Sunday night, promising to tackle inflation and take a sledgehammer to the state in the midst of an economic crisis. But his proposed policies will most…

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German and US defense chiefs make surprise visits to Kiev

Top Western officials visited Kiev on the tenth anniversary of the start of the Maidan protests A cavalcade of high-ranking Western officials paid an unannounced visit to Kiev on Monday, on the tenth anniversary of the start of the violent protests in the Ukrainian capital that eventually plunged the entire country into years of bloody…

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