Covid-19 is not the greatest crisis in our history. It is not even the greatest public health crisis in our history. However, the lockdown is, without doubt, the greatest interference with personal liberty in our history.
On the 30thMay 2009 I was requested by an attaché to the Spanish Embassy in Hay Al Mansur St in Iraq an informal opinion on the question surrounding the territory of Gibraltar.
Any jurist worth anything will ask of the Government a very simple question when it comes to COVID-19: – Did the person die with Coronavirus, or, Did the person die because of Coronavirus? You see there is a gargantuan difference between COVID-19 being the actual cause of the death, and COVID-19 being found in a person who died of other causes. Most of the news reports clearly state that the ‘majority’ of cases died having ‘other underlying’ symptoms’. Those…
There has to be a War in the World. In the history of the World, some 3000 years, there have only been 260 years of peace. At all other times, there has been War of some kind or other. The last real war was the Second World War which ended in 1945. There have been the Wars in Vietnam, Korea, Falkland’s, Ex-Yugoslavia, and, of course, the infamous war on terror. Now, there is a War of ‘Words,’ a virus….
Giovanni Di Stefano the Segretario Politico of the Partito Nazionale Italiano calls upon the Italian Premier, Giuseppe Conte, to undertake that all citizens that died as a consequence of COVID-19 Coronavirus that their families/next of kin will receive an immediate cash grant, and also receive a monthly pension for the next five years. Whilst the money pledged to boost the economy is welcomed, provision has to be made for the families of those who suffer bereavement. The Segretario Politico…
Hussein, an Egyptian national who works for the Al Jazeera Arabic television channel in Qatar, was arrested on arrival in Egypt on December 20, 2016, while on a personal visit to see his family. His incarceration is already in breach of Egypt’s penal code, which sets a maximum pretrial detention period of 620 days for individuals being investigated for a felony. Hussein has been held by the Egyptian authorities for more than 1,186 days, with baseless accusations and trumped-up charges….