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STEPHEN GLOVER: Why I now have an inkling of what it must be like to live in a dictatorship

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The chaotic and haphazard way in which a new lockdown was announced on Saturday evening symbolised Boris Johnson’s disorganised approach to the pandemic over the past eight months. Nearly three hours late, the Prime Minister stood uneasily at his lectern, flanked by the two familiar ‘gloomsters’ — Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty.  They … Read more

China labels Nobel Prize winner ‘evil’ for blaming coronavirus pandemic on Beijing’s dictatorship

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China has lashed out at a Nobel Prize winner after he blamed the coronavirus pandemic on Beijing’s political system. Mario Vargas Llosa, who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, claimed that the coronavirus would not have spread around the world had China been a free and democratic country, not a dictatorship. The Peruvian author’s … Read more