Australia has just opened its borders to international travel for the first time in almost two years. The british government has decided that it is time to move into letting it play out completely. Hal hodson is on the economists, covintin. We all want to go back to the way that life was, and we will, i suspet, sooner than you think.
As promised, Ukraine’s forces are fighting back tenaciously against a Russian invasion on multiple fronts—but Kyiv, the capital, is now squarely in the invaders’ sights. In England, the last covid restrictions were lifted entirely this week; we consider the calculations many leaders are making in this phase of the pandemic. And an assessment of romantic comedies as a cultural force.
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