Links from the last days # 2021-01-24

Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s Italy
- https://mises.org/library/feudalism-and-cronyism-machiavelli%E2%80%99s-italy
Supermarkets in England to be barred from displaying unhealthy food and drinks at checkouts or using them in buy one, get one free offers, as part of proposed government crackdown on obesity. No 10 also plans to stop multi-buy offers on foodstuffs high in sugar and fat from 2022.
- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/28/unhealthy-snacks-to-be-banned-from-checkouts-supermarkets-in-england
Despite the strong case against lockdowns governments across Europe still insist upon it
- https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
Decentralization the way foward for European countries?
- https://fee.org/articles/italy-s-debt-crisis-puts-the-european-union-at-a-crossroads/
Which countries in Europe have had the fewest Covid restrictions
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LibertarianEurope/comments/kxu0de/which_countries_in_europe_have_had_the_fewest/
Poland prepares draft law to make social media censorship illegal
- https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/01/poland-prepares-draft-law-to-make-social-media-censorship-illegal/
Switzerland calls referendum on stopping Covid lockdowns
- https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-calls-referendum-on-stopping-covid-lockdowns-2021-1?r=US&IR=
Putin's palace: History of world's largest bribe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI
New Exposé Shows UK’s COVID Response was Rife with Corruption and Cronyism
- https://fee.org/articles/new-expos%C3%A9-shows-uk-s-covid-response-was-rife-with-corruption-and-cronyism/

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