“For a range of outcomes, white working class children trail behind their peers in almost all ethnic minority groups, although the extent of these disparities vary by area.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Lega leader Matteo Salvini are set to have a series of talks in Hungary’s capital of Budapest, with the goal of forming a conservative political alliance. Speaking to the press in Rome, Salvini stated that the main purpose of the discussions would be to […]
Sweden, which drew significant criticism last year for refusing to lockdown its economy to prevent the spread of covid-19, saw a smaller increase in its death rate than most of Europe, according to official figures. According to Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics organisation, no-lockdown Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than they would have […]
JAMA Internal Medicine hosted a fiery debate about Dutch euthanasia this week. Geriatrician Diane Meier, of the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, responded feistily to critics of an editorial which she had written in December, headlined “The Treatment of Patients With Unbearable Suffering—The Slippery Slope Is Real”. Two teams of Dutch physicians responded with reassurances that “all […]
Islamist militants have attacked a convoy seeking to bring foreign workers to safety following an attack on a town in northern Mozambique. Hundreds of militants stormed the town of Palma on Wednesday in a surprise attack, and laid siege to a hotel where foreign workers and visitors were hiding after attacking shops, banks and a […]
Fourteen people have been seriously wounded in what is being described as a terrorist attack on Catholic church in Indonesia. The attack, which national police say was carried out by two people, took place as Catholics gathered in the church in the Indonesian city of Makassar for Palm Sunday services to mark the first day […]
The controversy comes after French teacher Samuel Paty was killed for displaying an image of Mohammed to students in a school outside Paris.
“We’re in for seemingly endless cycles of outbreaks and remissions, social restrictions and relaxations, lockdowns and reopenings.”
This is a new one on me, to be honest. I wasn’t aware Cardinals got a salary, as such, and certainly not anything this generous. If this Gript thing doesn’t work out, that’s my next career move, for sure: VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has ordered cardinals to take a 10 percent pay cut and […]
Scotland’s ban on public worship as part of the covid-19 regulations has been overturned in the Scottish Court of Session after a challenge by Glasgow Catholic priest, Canon Tom White, along with a coalition of 27 other faith leaders. The judge said that the regulations went further than was legally permissible, but that this did […]
Three weeks after the Governor of the US State of Texas announced an end to all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, including the mandatory use of facemasks, and two weeks after those measures took effect, cases of Covid are still falling in the Lone Star state. In the first week of March, when the announcement was […]
China has today issued sanctions against 10 EU citizens, including five MEPs, accusing them of “gross interference” in Chinese internal affairs and “maliciously spreading lies and false information.” The Chinese leadership has let me know that I will not be allowed to visit the mainland, Hong Kong or Macao. But then there is Taiwan. 🙂 […]