Watching the highly disturbing footage from Washington DC, last night, my mind kept going back to the autumn of 2018. On October 4th, of that year, the US Senate was engaged in a confirmation hearing for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh had been accused, you’ll recall, of sexually assaulting a high school […]
Thousands of Trump supporters have breached the perimeter of the US Capitol, with one protestor reportedly shot after entering the building.
Current mood: Extreme jealousy: The latest addition to Britain’s array of 24-hour news channels is to begin recruiting more than 100 journalists after completing a £60m fundraising that it claims was significantly oversubscribed. GB News, which aims to launch later this year, said on Wednesday that Sir Paul Marshall, a prominent hedge fund manager, and […]
The happiest man in America today? Joe Biden. At the time of writing, only one of the two US Senate Elections in the state of Georgia has been officially called, with Democrat Raphael Warnock unseating Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler. The other race, featuring Democrat John Ossoff against Republican Senator David Purdue, has not been officially […]
Some of you may be familiar with the internet phenomenon of recent years whereby people, seeking to make some form of political point, choose to put hilariously implausible words in the mouths of their small children. Usually, in these stories, the children are implausibly eloquent, extraordinarily concerned about political issues, and coincidentally, hold the exact […]
Rowan Atkinson, one of Britain’s most successful actors, has said online cancel culture is “the digital equivalent of the medieval mob.”
The Deputy National Security Advisor also dismissed the upcoming World Health Organization investigation into the outbreak as a distraction.
A London court has ruled the Australian journalist cannot be extradited to the US because of his mental health and a risk of suicide should an extradition proceed.
Interesting fact of the day, for those of you who don’t think so much about the words you use: “Amen”, which christian people customarily say at the end of a prayer, doesn’t actually have anything to do with men. It’s derived from Ancient Hebrew, the language of the jewish people at the time of the […]
A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, has found “no evidence of asymptomatic transmission” according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. “A mass screening programme of more than 10 million residents of Wuhan, China, performed after SARS-CoV-2 was brought under control, has identified 300 asymptomatic cases of covid-19, none of […]
A Chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for four years because she reported what she saw in the crowded hospitals of Wuhan when the coronavirus first impacted the city. Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty in the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” because she criticised the Chinese’s government’s […]
The European Commission has agreed to give Estonian national robotics company Milrem almost €36 million in grant money to create a new standard for unmanned military ground vehicles, the company has announced. The deal, which was signed earlier this month, is set to develop a new generation of battlefield robots. Known as Integrated Modular Unmanned […]