It’s quiet at our house today. Sometimes Sundays are busy as the family comes round but nobody is around today. My daughter and her partner have taken the small people off to Nantes, in Brittany, for a week. The sun seems to be shining there but they set off from home at 3.30 this morning so I expect they’re all rather tired.
The little fellow fell asleep on them in a café at lunchtime but woke up later to go on a dragon slide.
What good imaginative play stuff.
The sun continues to shine here. It was still cold at 8.30 this morning but the wind has dropped and by midday it was very pleasant. No doubt the local hostelries will be doing good business.
I read that some of our MPs are being denied entry to Israel:- .
“The UK’s foreign secretary has criticised Israeli authorities for denying two Labour MPs entry into the country and deporting them.
Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were rejected because they were suspected of plans to “document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred”, according to a statement from the Israeli immigration ministry cited by Sky News and Politics UK.”
I suppose it wouldn’t do for reports of activities in Israel,to get out to he wider world. And it doesn’t really do to shoot members of parliament in the way that journalists are sometimes targeted.
I keep coming across reports of visitors to the United States having problems with border controls. Here’s a link to a story of someone who travelled around the states, staying with families in exchange for helping out with babysitting, gardening, and other such activities. When she decided to move on to Canada she had trouble because her visa for the US was a tourist visit while really she should have had a work visa under the new rules and regulations. And so she ended up in one of their ICE centres - shackled and handcuffed whenever they moved her from p,ace to place, even to the airport for sending her back to the UK. I wonder where they thought she would run off to.
In a similar vein, my German friend told me about Irish students in Germany arrested and eventually deported for taking part in pro-Palestine demonstrations.it seems that rules and regulations are tightening up everywhere.
In the midst of the gloom and doom of the modern world, here’s a report of a biologist who donates his salary to help others:
“For the past five years, David Liu – a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research facility in Massachusetts – has marked Thanksgiving by handing over his entire annual salary, after taking care of taxes, to the staff and students in his laboratory.
It started as the pandemic broke and Liu heard that students who wanted to cycle instead of taking public transport could not afford bicycles. Given how hard they worked and how little they were paid, Liu stepped in. He couldn’t unilaterally raise their incomes, so emailed them Amazon eGift cards. This ran into problems too, however. “Everyone thought they were being scammed,” he recalls. And so he switched to writing cheques.
As the co-founder of several companies, Liu can make ends meet without his Harvard salary, and has set up a charitable foundation to further scientific research. Its coffers are due to swell considerably now that Liu has received the $3m Breakthrough prize for life sciences, which he was presented with on Saturday at the annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles.”
More information via this link.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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