Day-to-day controversies can’t change the uplifting inevitability of not one, but a buffet of Covid vaccines, that will arrive soon. It’s a wonderful tribute to modern medicine as scientists dissolved national borders, shared and cooperated. Crying over vaccine nationalism is now old hat. Instead, we should be celebrating vaccine globalism.
Beginning of farmer-govt talks is positive. Reform implementation needs persuasion, not confrontation
No immediate resolution was expected, but the fact that the farmer-Centre talks have begun, is a positive. It is also important that there’s been no visible or audible acrimony from either side. All reform is challenging, most of all in farming. It needs persuasion and flexibility, not confrontation or name-calling.
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