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Blog Post
March 26, 2021
It’s been quite the week for extraordinary behaviour with foodstuffs. A Taiwanese man has inadvertently changed his name permanently to ‘Salmon Dream’ in an attempt to access free sushi, yet this is somehow not the most ridiculous food-related public idiocy of the week: I present Charles W...
Blog Post
March 26, 2021
Safe and efficacious vaccines are our best tools for defeating COVID-19. An unprecedented research and development effort has led to 12 vaccines with full or limited use emergency authorizations globally, but vaccinating everyone in the world as quickly as possible will require additional production...
Blog Post
March 24, 2021
Two positive development stories emerged from the UK education sector last week: A new tutoring scheme is hiring Sri Lankan tutors for British children. And the UK Department for Education is proposing a new international teaching qualification, which could make international recruitment easier.
Blog Post
March 22, 2021
The Biden administration and the Congress rightly went big in the recently passed American Rescue Plan at a time of tremendous need. The package was appropriately focused on the domestic side, but it did not neglect the rest of the world. One might reasonably ask then why $1 billion or $2 billi...