Unforgettable Year: June 2020

June brought criticism of Big Data censorship and the coverage of the pandemic in mainstream media, as it became clear the doomsday scenarios certain epidemiologists painted in March were wide of the mark. Frank Armstrong wrote: Accepting Covid-19 represents an extraordinary challenge requiring a concerted response, censorship by Big Data in such a blanket form, … Read more

Enforcing Environmental Rights

Introduction However scant the support provided by the legal process, as a lawyer I am drawn to rights-driven considerations. In terms of recent context – blinkered by the present over-reaction – Obama’s climate change initiative has been overturned by Trump, who effectively tore up the Kyoto Accord. The internal U.S. solution to climate issues is … Read more

Covid-19: are we really all in this together?

Introduction What I don’t find nice, and I really don’t need, is people clapping. I don’t need rainbows. I don’t care if people clap until their hands bleed with rainbows tattooed on their faces. I don’t even (whisper it) need Colonel Tom, lovely man as he clearly is… The coronavirus crisis has shone a light … Read more

Repression and Covid-19

The long march of the locked-down migrants[i] (Aadesh Ravi – composer, lyric writer and singer) Lyrics How are the little ones holding up at home? I wonder how and with what my old mother feeds them?  We toil daily to subsist Forced to migrate to make ends meet The nation may be great But our … Read more