They should clear out the top management who have all failed! And they should put in more neutral respectable people. They should then set up tough regulations and body with power to act with transparent methodology for street questions and guest selection etc. Also restore meaningful balance.

Yes, my bad. I’d been on X not long before and hadn’t fully acclimatised… Humour, how nice - what a change! :))

The optimism is fitting for a self help book but is a long way from research and what it actually means for the world.

Also the lasting damage that nobody can rely on America. Bad for business and alliances. Good for Russia and China.

You sound silly Marc. Grow up.

Yes but some haven’t helped themselves or us. Namely those who stop traffic and hold up emergency vehicles and people needing to get to a variety of places. These irresponsible self-defeating protestors have made it easier for government to take away these rights.

If we want to get serious about our democracy and having it solve issues that are important to us it’s not government or legislation we need to be going after. It’s the shadowy figures corrupting and distorting it who pretend to be “truth warriors”. Yes, plot twist. They’re the bad guys! Got it?

And they do this to get the same kind of people who fall for anti-vaxx and covid minimising propaganda to fall for their cheap stunts too. Because they want power at the expense of your gullibility. And yes, they exploit issues that matter to you to do it and pretend to be on your side.

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When government is small, they are big. Simple as that. You just don’t see them and you sure as hell don’t vote for them. But you get them anyway. Populists like Trump point their finger at other things and many are real issues. But they inflate those issues instead of dealing with them.

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They want to keep plebs working and they don’t want to be investing in cleaning air or giving workers more rights because that’s not in their interests. These aren’t the bosses. These are the bosses bosses. The politicians bosses. They don’t like government or public health.

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Then you have the immensely powerful Koch Brothers and other economic think tanks funded by dark money and people with more global power than pharma bosses. Or even Bill Gates. FFS really? Bill Gates? Don’t be that dumb. Koch Brothers et al depend on the status quo.

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What better opportunity than this? Tell western people their governments are tyrants who want to control them and develop a deep mistrust of western tech within the west - yet alone beyond the west. Genius! Anti-vaxxers. Sorry, not so genius.

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Global co-ordination doesn’t come easy. The Kremlin is involved in some of this activity and has clear motive as well as means and opportunity. They seek to undermine democracy and the west wherever they can.

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I guess once committed to a cause and echoing and championing it, especially when done in good faith - as it is by many - then it’s hard to see how you might be part of the conspiracy. But that is the far more probable scenario. There are large players involved.

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So, governments all over the world are evil? Pharma all over the world is evil? Right, seems likely. Well, em, no it doesn’t. What we have seen however is an extremely well co-ordinated global campaign from anti-vaxxed and some covid minimisers.

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Welcome to Logan’s Run.

I think Trump is more of a narcissist than an idealogue so is less dangerous than Hitler in that way. However, he denegrates institutions and distorts truth so paves the way for worse to come and is certainly a threat to democracy. After all, he already attempted one anti-democratic coup.

It's a wake up call and all those who value democracy in the west need to wake up.

Flexible working has so many potential benefits and some of my favourites are:

- health (not least reducing covid infections)
- work life balance (less stress)
- environment (less traffic pollution)
- flexible location
- waking up sleepy commuter zones with community life
- increased productivity