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In today’s featured cartoon, Kevin Siers illustrates how America’s stock markets suffered the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, amid fears around coronavirus.
However, US President Donald Trump’s reaction to the frenzy caused by the disease is to dismiss it as a “new hoax” by the Democrats.
Peter Brooke points out that things don’t look much better in the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is confidence that the National Health Service (NHS) will successfully tackle the virus.
Henny Beaumont, in the meanwhile, takes inspiration from that strange moment when Johnson declared that the NHS was off the table in any post-Brexit trade deals with the US, adding that Britain was not keen on having “chlorinated chicken” — a reference to US food standards that allow industrial meat producers to wash their birds in chlorine after slaughter.
Adam Zyglis comments on the controversy around Michael Bloomberg’s social media strategies while campaigning for the US elections. Bloomberg has been blamed for creating memes that sidestep on social media, which includes allegations of his ‘Bloomberg’ memes sidestepping Facebook’s transparency rules, sharing unethically edited videos, and fabricating quotes to malign opponents.
Christian Adams sketches on the UK court ruling that deemed the expansion of the Heathrow airport as unlawful on the grounds of not respecting climate commitments — a decision the Boris Johnson government has had to swallow like a bitter pill.