The father of teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg says he and his wife ‘stopped flying and went vegan to “save” their daughter rather than help the planet’, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that they were not ‘“not climate activists” but had made radical changes to their lifestyles after seeing the positive impact it had […]
In Colombia’s ‘invisible war’ – a ‘bloody conflict’ of over 50 years – nearly 17,000 child soldiers were conscripted by communist terrorist group FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) to fight against the Colombian government, but within their ranks were girls and boys forced to become ‘sex slaves’; repeatedly raped, for the girls there was […]
Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, issues a timely warning about the increasing censorship of free speech in the public sphere, as well as self-censorship, ‘which is in many ways more insidious than the formal policing of language’; this is a growing problem on the internet, but also on university campuses, where […]
Maya Forstater’s ordeal will outrage you. Since January 2015, the 45-year-old British tax expert had served as a consultant to the European arm of the Center for Global Development, an American think tank. Once her contract came to an end, on Dec. 31, 2018, the CDG elected not to renew it. The reason: Forstater’s expression […]
For those interested in the horrific, on-the-ground realities of a totalitarian government engaging in population control and social engineering on a massive scale, the documentary One Child Nation on Amazon Prime Video is required viewing. Both of the documentary’s directors (Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang) were born under the one-child-policy in the 1980s. After emigrating to the […]
Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of pornographic material. Sean Covey, son of the famous Stephen Covey, has written a terrific book for teens that I regularly recommend to parents: The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make. It’s full of wise, down-to-earth advice regarding the decisions teens have to make about friends, school, their relationships with […]
Today, conspiracy theories about non-Muslim minorities dominate the public sphere. At the root of these stories, Christians are depicted as collaborators with foreign powers to undermine the Turkish identity.
The Charity Commission has warned contraception and abortion provider Maries Stopes International over its decision to award chief executive Simon Cooke ‘a bonus equivalent to his salary’, and has ‘launched an inquiry’, asking MSI trustees ‘to explain’ why last year his £217,250 salary ‘had been matched with a bonus worth the same amount, doubling his […]
Thanks to a much less rigid regime compared to China’s, Vietnam never managed to completely destroy its demographic future, despite falling for the population control trap.
A paralysed former builder from Leeds, 63-year-old Paul Lamb, has failed in his ‘High Court bid to challenge the law on assisted dying’; having ‘lost a right-to-die case in the Supreme Court in 2014’, he argued that ‘the current law, which bans assisted suicide under threat of up to 14 years in jail, is discriminatory […]
More than three million people have signed petitions on various platforms calling on Netflix to cancel a film which Christians say is deliberately offensive and an “unacceptable provocation”. The work, by Brazilian YouTube group, Portas Do Fondos was bought by Netflix but has been condemned by Christians worldwide who decided to buy its production and distribution […]
There are two things about modern politics that are depressingly true. The first is that “our” side is always right, regardless of the facts. The second is that inflicting harm on the other side is often more important than getting something useful done. Both truths have their origins in the politics of the United States […]