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 […]
A bit of twitter bait here from the Brazilian Foreign Minister: The pandemic must not lead to totalitarian social control or the abrogation of fundamental freedoms. Freedom is foundational to the UN and essential to human dignity. Brazil🇧🇷 stands for freedom. No to the “Great Reset” My speech at UN session on Covid:https://t.co/mrxDVKXCSa pic.twitter.com/nxrEagxeEq — […]
The Iraqi parliament has unanimously voted to make Christmas Day an official state holiday.
Australian Cardinal George Pell, whose previous conviction for alleged child abuse was overturned after he was unanimously acquitted by all 7 justices of the highest Australian court this year, claims that his conservative and traditionalist views were what drove public opinion against him. Speaking to the BBC, 79-year-old Pell said that there was “no doubt” […]
Poland has proposed a new bill which promises to combat Big Tech censorship with a threat of fines if they do not uphold legal speech. Announced on Thursday by Polish Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, the bill would allow individuals to file legal complaints against social media companies who remove or censor posts that do not […]
United States prosecutors have charged a fired Chinese Zoom executive with disrupting multiple video calls which were to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Xinjiang Jin, who is based in China, has been accused of helping to shut down at least four video calls in May and June of 2020, hosted by […]