The Telegraph: France becomes first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees

We can call it strategic impotence – using a claim to be unable to do something as means of pursuing one’s advantage or cementing privilege. Read here

Retail sales in Germany decreased at a monthly rate of 1.9% in February, data by the Federal Statistical Office showed on Thursday. The actual figure confounded market expectations of a 0.3% monthly growth In annual […]

Measures that are “temporary and exceptional” tend to become permanent. A wall is being built, military is being used against refugees, imprisonment is being legalised. Read here