Weekend Segments | 20th August 2023
They Want to Lock US Down Again
Pre-recorded Thursday 17/08/23. Josh and Harry discuss the seeming global push to reinstitute lockdowns.
My Favourite Dictator
Pre-recorded Thursday 17/08/23. Harry and Josh discuss El Salvadore’s coolest dictator and the media response to his continued success.
Reading List
New COVID subvariant, Eris, is now most common and fastest-spreading in US: 'Never going away' - Fox News
New Covid variant BA.6 is 'probably' already in the US, experts warn - amid calls for masks to return - The Daily Mail
New ultra-mutated Covid variant dubbed 'the real deal' may already be in UK, experts warn - The Mirror
Urgent Covid warning as experts call for public to wear masks again due to worrying new variant - The Irish Mirror
New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn - The Independent
New Covid variant leads to scientists demanding rules from lockdown reimposed on Britain - GB News
Communist British scientist dubbed 'Stalin's nanny' who wanted face masks and social distancing FOREVER is given top job at World Health Organization - The Daily Mail
British professor who is member of the Communist party appointed as chair of WHO advisory group - The Telegraph
Britain must prepare for harder lockdowns, says Matt Hancock - The Telegraph
Is it all right to enjoy lockdown? - GG Magazine
Turns Out We're All Thinking It – Here's How Many Of Us Miss Lockdown Life - The Huffington Post
Hating lockdown? A third of Brits have actually enjoyed it - CNN
We miss lockdown! Nostalgia for 2020 sweeps TikTok as GenZ-ers insist the pandemic was their 'best year ever' and a welcome break from reality - The Daily Mail
The true cost of lockdown: 'negligible health benefits for the biggest assault on peacetime liberty' - The Telegraph
Untruth after untruth was peddled to justify the great lockdown disaster - The Telegraph
Britain may well repeat its lockdown blunders sooner than anyone thinks - The Telegraph
El Salvador president promises crackdown on gangs in rural areas - Channel 4 News - Youtube
Ivy League Businessman Wants to Take On Ecuador Cocaine Cartels - Bloomberg
Second Ecuador politician killed in less than a week - The BBC
What the world’s budding autocrats are learning from El Salvador - The Economist
Bukele’s hell in El Salvador: a country submerged in a police state - Elpais
The vincible Bukele: Can the Millennial autocrat be stopped? - The Hill
As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power - The Independent
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