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Biden Orders End to Private Prisons in Package to Achieve ‘Racial Equity’

Denouncing what he called “systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far, far too long,” President Joe Biden signed executive actions Tuesday aimed at “racial equity,” including a measure to end the use of private prisons to hold federal inmates.  “We are in a battle for the soul of this nation and the simple…

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Media Betrays Bias With ‘Reporting’ on Biden Inauguration

There is a perception, supported by many surveys, that what passes for contemporary journalism is more biased, even propagandistic, than in earlier times. One of the definitions of “journalism” on Dictionary.com will affirm that attitude for many: “writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition…” Journalism has, in fact, been…

Bernard Jenkin: How long can the intensity of vaccination be sustained?

Bernard Jenkin: How long can the intensity of vaccination be sustained?

Bernard Jenkin MP is Chair of the Liaison Committee, and MP for Harwich and North Essex. The government’s foresight in placing large-scale speculative orders for vaccines in development means that there is now real hope that the UK will emerge from the Covid-19 crisis well ahead of its peers. However, unless this early success is…

Newslinks for Tuesday 26th January 2021

Newslinks for Tuesday 26th January 2021

EU ‘threatens to block exports of Pfizer Covid vaccine’ “Britain’s Covid vaccine supply is in jeopardy after the EU threatened to block exports of the Belgian-made Pfizer jabs amid a row with UK-based AstraZeneca. Brussels decided to impose tighter controls on exports after reacting with fury to the news that AstraZeneca will deliver 50 million…

Harry Fone: Parish councils can waste money too

Harry Fone: Parish councils can waste money too

Harry Fone is the Grassroots Campaign Manager for the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The TaxPayers’ Alliance is well-known for scrutinising spending in the higher tiers of local government such as unitary, county, and city councils. However, over the past few weeks my inbox has been inundated with emails from concerned ratepayers detailing the largesse of their parish…