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Flawed democracy

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

In an interesting report by Catherine Philp in the UK Times, we learn that the coronavirus has seriously damaged democratic institutions and nations around the globe. This would come as no surprise to Zoe Buhler, the pregnant woman hauled up and handcuffed in her pyjamas in front of her children by thuggish masked officers simply for posting her thoughts on lockdowns on Facebook.

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