To meet its climate goals, the EU needs to make new investments in renewable energy. But to transition away from Russian oil, it needs to upgrade its fossil fuel infrastructure. Either way, energy will cost more.
The EU has announced a complete embargo on Russian oil. But buying less oil from Russia will mean buying more from Saudi Arabia – a country that's been bombing civilians in Yemen for the last seven years.
Noting that boosters are “not risk-free”, the immunologist Paul Offit has written in the New England Journal of Medicine that “all age groups are at risk for the theoretical problem of an “original antigenic sin”".
In a recent podcast interview with the New York Times, Philip Breedlove – former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO – said, "I think we are in a proxy war with Russia. We are using the Ukrainians as our proxy forces."
A new freedom of information request has revealed that *another* author of the infamous Lancet letter, which referred to "conspiracy theories" about Covid origins, gave the lab leak credence in a private email.
The US has demanded China not build a military base in the Solomon Islands. If it had applied the same principles to Russia that it applies to itself, we might have been able to prevent the war in Ukraine.
The UN's food price index is now as high as it was during the 1970s oil crisis, and the World Food Programme has warned that 2022 will be a year of “catastrophic hunger”. Lockdown is one major culprit.
A new pro-lockdown study has been doing the rounds on social media. The author accused one critic of "libel" for saying it was "intellectually dishonest" to draw strong conclusions from dubious methods.
According to figures published by the ONS, Sweden saw the second smallest increase in national debt out of all EU countries. The UK, by contrast, saw the fourth largest – only Spain, Greece and Italy did worse.
John Mearsheimer has described the war in Ukraine as “the most dangerous crisis since the Second World War", claiming it is actually “more dangerous than the Cuban crisis” owing to the risk of nuclear escalation.
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