The rave scene of the 1980s was linked at least in part to rebellion against Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government. That much is obvious. And during the early years of house music in the UK,...
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A place where vaccine passports are in force but not in law and a parliamentary debate gets abandoned at 9pm after five hours following elusive “legal advice” – where else but Northern Ireland?
What politicians decree and what the law says often don’t match. This is something that’s become increasingly clear over the past nearly two years now. In England, for example, vaccine passports are due to...
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Boris Johnson switches on England’s Plan B, bringing in vaccine passports and more face mask use – but as the Downing Street Christmas party controversy goes on, will anyone listen?
Last Wednesday, the British Labour leader Keir Starmer asked an interesting question to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Did a party take place in Downing Street on December 18th last year contrary to rules banning...
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Midnight curfew for Ireland’s nightclubs, and vaccine passports popping up all over the place – does anyone else fancy an extra strong coffee this morning?
Nightclubs, by their very definition, are supposed to be open at night. Which is why eyebrows were raised when the Netherlands announced last week that nightclubs would have to close at the notably early...
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Why Amateur’s House won’t out people in the dance music world who haven’t had the Covid jab – with one possible exception to the rule…
Every now and then, my lovely readers get in touch with ideas for stories, features and columns for the blog. And to be fair, many do make it onto these pages – for instance,...
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Understanding vaccine passport rules is enough to drive you to drink – and now government documents reveal not only could they do precisely that, but they could INCREASE Covid transmission rates too…
Every evening from around 10pm, the front pages of the following day’s newspapers start to come in. I occasionally have a look at them, and whilst taking a peep last night, I caught the...
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Vaccine passes became law in Wales this week – but controversy over the farcical vote in the Welsh Parliament (where they passed by a single vote) continues to cause an almighty stink
Vaccine passes (as they insist on calling them) came into use in Wales yesterday. If you want to enter a nightclub or a few other specific settings in the country now, you must either...
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As Scotland announces a 17-day delay in enforcing vaccine passports, is this possibly anything to do with an impending NTIA legal challenge to the policy?
So, back we go to the divisive topic of vaccine passports once more. Scotland was due to introduce them on October 1st – tomorrow. But like everything else with this policy, it’s been rushed...
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I told you this would happen, didn’t I? Scotland’s government is being taken to court over vaccine passports by the Night Time Industries Association…
I don’t really like people who say “I told you so”, but I’m honestly struggling to think of another way to start this post on this Monday morning. You see, a few weeks ago,...
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Hail Mary Jane: Washington state offering free cannabis joints to anyone having the Covid jab – but would it bring a smile to those ever so miserable anti-vaxxers?
Different areas of the world are resorting to varying tactics to persuade people to have the Covid-19 vaccine. None more so than in the USA, where in Ohio, anyone who’s had the vaccine is...
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What’s it like having the Covid-19 jab? My own experience
I’m one of the lucky ones. I have not caught Covid-19 and fingers crossed, I do not catch in the future. I know many people who have had it, I know at least six...
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