Although falling just short of securing a majority of seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that holding a vote on independence from the UK is the “will of the people”.
A newly-discovered ant species in Ecuador has been given the gender-neutral suffix “-they” rather than a traditional Latin scientific suffix, and has been named after a gay activist and protégé of Andy Warhol, despite the ant not being non-binary and having only the normal genders of male and female. The ant was discovered in 2018 […]
Nicholas Wade, if you have never heard of him, is not just some random journalist. For 30 years, he was the Science Editor at the New York Times. Before that, he was Editor of Science, one of the most important Scientific journals in the world. So, when he publishes an exhaustive argument setting out the […]
Controversy has erupted after New Zealand trans weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who was born male, now looks set to make history by taking part in the women’s super heavyweight weightlifting category in the Olympics. Despite being 43 years old, considered long past the peak of strength in competitive weightlifting, Hubbard won silver at the 2017 world championships. While some […]
One of the rites of passage for American Children, as any person who has watched an American coming-of-age movie will know, is heading off to what they call “summer camp”, which is sort of a convenient way for parents to get rid of their children over the summer holidays. There were, of course, no such […]
Facebook’s oversight board has voted to uphold Donald Trump’s ban from both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook was one of many major tech companies that earlier this year moved to indefinitely block Trump’s access to his accounts on their platforms, citing alleged concerns that Trump was guilty of inciting violence. At the time of his initial […]
“No one is allowed to steal my home!” al-Kurd responds.
“Amazon pays all the taxes required in every country where we operate,” the spokesman said.
The Law Commission is considering whether the list of protected groups should be expanded under current hate crime laws in the UK.
A Harris Interactive poll of French citizens has found 58 per cent of respondents support a controversial warning issued by a group of active and retired military personnel that the country is close to “civil war” due to Islamic fundamentalism.
The EU’s border agency, Frontex, has been given new powers to oversee the deportation of illegal immigrants. In a new strategy revealed by the European Commission on Tuesday, Frontex will be at the centre of new plans to send illegal migrants home once they are denied entry into Europe. “Frontex will become the European Union’s […]
A peaceful 75-year-old Christian preacher was roughed up and arrested by London police for reading Bible verses about there being only two genders, which some onlookers called “hate speech.” Pastor John Sherwood, a minister at a north London church, was preaching the Christian gospel in Boris Johnson’s home constituency with a colleague, Peter Simpson. According […]