How Russia plans to CRIPPLE the West

As Russia’s campaign in Ukraine does badly on the ground it is raising alarm bells thanks to its manoeuvres in space. China and now North Korea battle with Covid as the WHO upends a lot of cherished misconceptions about the pandemic. The democrats put a radical abortion bill to the senate so that its glorious defeat can motivate the base. And the BBC gets caught mistaking campaigning for journalism when it comes to climate change. And in this week’s short thought, I focus on the big moves to ratchet up online censorship.