The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #29

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Reading List

Major Win for Free Speech in the UK

- People have the right to offend

- Labour’s 2003 communications act

- Superceded section 43 of the Telecommunications Act 1984

Vaccines

- List of world leaders who will take the vaccine

- Bill gates will be getting the vaccine, won’t budge

- Paul McCartney got it and he feels fine

- Sir Ian McKellen took it and he played Gandalf

- Not like this unfortunate chap, who clearly didn’t get the vaccine

- A mishap - all the other people got the vaccine, the white man didn’t.

- Insane bigots like Tucker Carlson will tell you that you shouldn’t trust the vaccine

- What’s the harm of memes? Memes are dangerous!

UK China relationship falling apart

- UK should do more business with China, says George Osborne

- David Cameron takes Xi Xingping to the pub

- Chinese buy the pub

- Ministers seek to stop 'back door’ foreign takeovers with new security bill

- UK GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES NATIONAL SECURITY AND INVESTMENT BILL

- Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

- Lords vote to revoke UK trade deals with countries committing genocide

- UK and China: how the love affair faded