Tim Jackson says we must learn from past mistakes.
Last week, Gript reported the shocking news that the bodies of more than 2,000 preborn babies had been found in the residence of Ulrich Klopfer, a doctor who had performed abortions in South Bend, Indiana. Klopfer, who previously ran three abortion clinics, had been forced to close his centres when the Indiana Medical Licensing Boarded […]
America’s opioid epidemic is not going away. It is affecting men, women, children and even new-born babies and the health of the next generation of Americans. Its demographic is non-Hispanic white Americans, Native Americans and the working class, and it is shortening life expectancy for the first time in a century. As Nicholas Eberstadt wrote back […]
For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing laser pointers at the police to […]
William Huang describes how politicians in India are backing a bill which orders civil servants to stop at two children.
Hackers invaded the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit database and published on the internet over a thousand emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets exchanged by scientists partisans of the man-made global warming theory. The extensive correspondence, which covered a ten-year span, showed the scientists plotting to manipulate data so as to make the warming theory […]
Christianity would have formed a central part of the lives of both the aristocracy and the ordinary people in Britain at the time, yet the historical adviser to the programme Alastair Bruce revealed that executives were in a “panic” about anything religious being seen on the show.
Portugal has had an exceptional experience with emigration and immigration for several hundred years. As skilled mariners they set sail to open up world markets over 500 years ago. Portuguese settled in all continents from Brazil in the Americas all the way to East Timor in Asia including large parts of Africa in between. In […]
New data on the mental health of American college students shows a sombre trend. Rates of depression, anxiety, low flourishing, suicidal thinking and suicidal attempts have all worsened over the years 2007 to 2018, according to research by Jean Twenge and colleagues, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. And it’s not all down to more reporting. […]
According to analysis from the Charity Commission in the UK, in 2018 chief executive of Marie Stopes International Simon Cooke was paid £434,000, ‘after receiving a bonus that doubled his pay’; this takes him way above the £178,000 average of Britain’s biggest charity chiefs, but Mr Cooke ‘was awarded a performance-related bonus’ equal to his […]
Mandarin-speaking Mainlanders are drowning the city-state’s Cantonese culture
The elderly are an untapped resource – and so are the young.