The persecuted Uighurs, already suffering from months locked indoors and being monitored at all times, were likely trapped in a growing inferno because the doors were sealed by the authorities to keep everyone inside, all in the name of - you guessed it - Zero Covid.

Perhaps it's hard for our leaders to condemn China on Zero Covid, as it would be an acknowledgement that they too massively overreacted to the threat of the virus for far too long, math and science center grand junction damning us to the economic hellscape where we now find ourselves.

The son of City financier David Hall, he hotfooted it from China, where he ran an outpost of Holland Park Education, after the Communist regime brought in strict curbs on the after-school tutoring industry, banning companies from hiring foreigners.

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'Near my constituency is the Downham Market wars. The old-fashioned market traders, selling things like mobility scooters, kid tutors are at war with the new traders, who are posh blow-ins selling organic food.' 

Well-connected Hall, who organised the university fashion show where Kate Middleton first caught Prince William's eye as she sashayed down the catwalk, has been accused of failing to pay staff at his high-end tutoring company.

If you already are fine with spending over $100 on a streaming device, that delta probably doesn't matter when the experience on the 4K version is so much better.  With the much more powerful Apple TV 4K running an updated A12 processor and just $30 more at the time, it begged the question of why anyone would even want the Apple TV HD anymore?

The move was revealed Tuesday when Apple's online store no longer listed the Apple TV HD as available for sale. The Apple TV HD had a long life, but after hanging around for seven years Apple is finally ready to put it out to pasture. The only streaming device currently available at Apple's site is now the new Apple TV 4K. 

Testing and isolation is constant; government officials in hazmat suits, robots and drones patrol the streets barking orders; while a simple trip to the shop can see you end up in a prison-like quarantine camp for weeks on end.

In our latest review of the Apple TV HD last year, the device did a fine job opening and playing all the major streaming apps -- but did so at a significantly cheaper  or . Asking the Apple TV HD to do anything more, like play an Apple Arcade game, and you quickly saw how limited the box was. 

Last given a specs update , the aging box was still sold in late 2022 at $149, and discounted as low as a still-expensive $79, despite not being capable of streaming content in 4K. Apple gave the box a slight repackaging last year to include its new Siri Remote, but still kept the sky-high price and aging A8 processor (similar to the one found in the iPhone 6 that was released in 2014) the same. 

Today, without a major industry to anchor the local economy, a quarter of workers in Olive Hill commute to another county for their jobs, and 7% work outside of Kentucky entirely, according to Census data from the latest American Community Survey.

And yet, many residents of Olive Hill don't begrudge Walmart - in fact, many make the trip to Morehead to shop at the supercenter there, and say they only wish the retailer had a store closer to their homes.

In fact, residents of Olive Hill jokingly refer to the Dollar General closest to downtown as the ‘Olive Hill Walmart' due to its wide variety of goods, including a small produce section stocked with fruits and vegetables.

In the end, most folk in the West were able to ignore months of damaging scaremongering government propaganda to realise that policies associated with Zero Covid have very little to do with a virus and everything to do with control.

Merrett, the Western Illinois University academic, agreed that in some cases, a new dollar store can be a boon to rural areas where local businesses have shuttered, and residents have few or no retail options.

The hamlet's downtown features rows of shuttered businesses that speak to better days, but a spark of economic life remains, with several local restaurants, a hardware store, and florist and boutique shops dotting the small commercial district.

The Western leaders who advocated - or even attempted ­- such a policy in civilised and free societies should look at the carnage the authoritarian President Xi Jinping has unleashed on the good and long-suffering people of China, who have been pushed to the brink and are finally fighting back, then hold their heads in shame.

Then there's the outrageous claim made by Scotland's nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon, whose main pandemic adviser Devi Sridhar was a telegenic Zero Covid zealot, that her nation only failed to stamp out the virus because of pesky English folk crossing the non-existent border.