An updated classification of the poems I liked most in the Penguin Modern Poets series (1962-79)
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A categorisation based on a reading of the 2122 poems in this 27-volume series.
Year: 2021
What caused the huge jump in reported deaths “with Covid-19” in Britain in December and January?
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Britain and France each have populations of around 67 million. Yet the reported rate of deaths “with Covid-19” in Britain, which was about the same as the French rate at the end of November 2020, trebled in December and January while the French rate remained about the same. Why?
Right-wing racist British media subliminally blames black and other non-white nurses for “refusing” vaccination, thus supposedly posing a health risk
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Seriously, what else does the Telegraph mean when it complains that the rate of vaccine refusal among healthworkers in London is twice the average?
British mass media tell lies about foreign countries’ plans for “vaccine passports”
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But funnily enough the Financial Times, a newspaper aimed not at the mass market but at the richer part of the business class, tells the truth, which is that a negative test result will be just as acceptable as vaccine certification for entry purposes.
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey – Moron of the Week?
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This idiot wants us all to have “a day off” on the day that the pandemic-themed restrictions are supposed to end.
British media declare that 68% of the population support “vaccine passports” for foreign travel…as they sneer at the clothes of a man who tries to leave the “quarantine” captivity in which he has been confined without his suitcase
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Never mind that Britain has never been part of the Schengen zone and generally speaking a country can’t issue a document that guarantees entry into another country, nor that the right of “habeas corpus”, which the English national myth used to describe as guaranteed by the Magna Carta, seems to have been torn up.
The British government is locking up travellers from 11 Black African countries that have less than 10% of the reported Covid death rate in the United States
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Yet the Black African countries are called “high risk”, whereas the white-majority United States isn’t on the “lock-up” list at all. Why’s that?
Siege tactics against the unvaccinated: are the British authorities about to “allow” supermarkets and public transport firms to deny access to those who can’t “prove” they’ve been injected?
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Food purchase will depend on prior vaccination? What do you mean that’s not about freedom? You get injected and then the health helpers give you a freedom passport! Slavery is freedom!
Britain is set to detain hundreds of innocent people without trial, and to charge them £1750 for the experience. What precedents are there in any country?
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When have innocent people been locked up and made to pay a large sum for their own detention? Did Hitler do anything like that? Did Stalin? And many of the rooms at Travelodge hotels don’t even have windows that open. How does that sound, during a pandemic?