Nearly 5 billion people are not yet fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Portugal has the best vaccination rate of any major country, while Burundi only received its first few hundred doses in October 2021. Explore the data in this interactive graph.
Netflix vs Orthodox Jews, travel for the unvaxxed and deadbeat dads in blue helmets | Borderline Brief #2
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A weekly curation for global citizens. This week: Cambodia, UN peacekeepers, Haredi Jews, Black Britons, US immigration, Afghan refugees, Facebook, Covid, climate, Antarctica, France, Mexico, Russia, China and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation.
The last freedom
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As borders slowly reopen, immigrants and expats won’t soon forget that our freedom of movement is conditional, our lifestyle only tolerated
Empire, Churchill and killing monarchs: footnotes on my conversation on (not quite) everything with Jonn Elledge
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I can't possibly summarise the latest episode but I can add plenty of footnotes.
044 | Jonn Elledge | A conversation on (not quite) everything
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Why Britain never got over the empire, who of the French and the English killed the most monarchs and multiculturalism vs. universalism.
Squid Game, Afghan refugees and the UK's new nationality bill | Borderline Brief #1
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A weekly curation of news for global citizens: immigration, free movement, globalisation and more.
043 | Christiana Bukalo | Living stateless
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Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate life unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.
042 | Will Buckingham | Leave the door ajar for strangers...
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Xenophobia lurks in all of us. But so does philoxenia, that peculiar curiosity and desire to connect when we meet a stranger. What if we cultivated it?
