Monday [7 to 9]

9.  The Slog

https://therealslog.com/2021/06/14/whitty-for-sale-one-damaged-moral-compass/

"Science" for sale to the highest bidder:

Most observers have, however, at last spotted that the country is being run by two compromised science/health bureaucrats: Patrick Vallance (a Pharmafia capo) and Christopher Witty...an, um, well, yes, ooh - 'ere missus - no, as Frankie Howerd might well have said. 

8.  Haiku

https://marhobane.substack.com/p/endgame-zimbabwe

To talk about the particular crimes of the ANC in order to keep score has no utility whatsoever. The scale is so vast and so deep and so bereft of human compassion that it compares unfavourably with late Soviet Europe. The important details to eye are the structural habits of power and patronage.

7.  Distant Relative

a.  With all the cv and audits taking our attention (mostly) this went under the radar:

 

https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/06/04/biden-admin-informs-media-outlets-that-trump-doj-covertly-obtained-phone-records-on-their-reporters/ 

Now when will someone actually do something about it? That's the question.

b.  Dashed hypocrites. But we knew that already.... 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/12/no-masks-no-distancing-disgraceful-covid-hypocrisy-of-the-g7-elite/