Bronterre News

Comment and analysis by journalist Patrick O'Brien in tribute to Chartist leader, radical agitator and campaigning journalist James Bronterre O'Brien (1804-1864). BELOW: Ynyslas, Ceredigion, unscathed (see under Environment for pieces on highly controversial plan to excavate this spectacular unspoilt beach and erect an uglifying cast-metal effigy of a tree). Oil painting, 2019, by Nicki Orton

ONE OF the most infuriating things in the Covid-19 discussion is the obsessive insistence that it wouldn’t be right to act to prevent a future novel coronavirus outbreak in the absence of solid proof that any measure we took was based on certainty.   Thus we cannot, the argument goes, push for a permanent and …

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SOME THINGS gnaw away at you. In my case, it’s the vital angle all but forgotten about in the saturation coverage of the coronavirus crisis.   News outlets dispense practically everything you could ever want to know about Covid-19. Apart, staggeringly, from one thing – sustained delving into its origins and, even more importantly, on …

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