The popular streaming service, Netflix, has come under for its new show which critics say is “sexualising children” and may amount to “promoting paedophilia”. Netflix describes the film as a story about an 11-year old joining a “twerking dance crew” and using that experience to “explore her femininity” and ‘defy’ her family’s traditions. Critics have […]
Doctors have warned of a “looming mental health crisis” and a “”tsunami of referrals” as new data shows that the number of adults in Britain with depression has doubled during the Covid-19 lockdown. Almost 20% of people said they had experienced depression in the month of June – doubling the number (9.7%) who gave that […]
The Democratic National Convention, which will, tomorrow night, nominate Joe Biden to replace Donald Trump, is well underway. And last night, Bill Clinton gave a typically Bill Clinton speech. Preceded, of course, by a typically Bill Clinton headline: New photos show Bill Clinton getting massage from Epstein accuser https://t.co/g6hObcblMt pic.twitter.com/lSiRoNJfuU — New York Post (@nypost) […]
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has announced that having a dog is “decadent and bourgeois” – and declared that owning a pet is now against the law. The Daily Mail reports that: ‘Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down’, […]
New figures show that Britain has crashed into the worst recession in its history, with the country’s economy diving by 20.4% between April and June this year. Experts warn that the crash in Britain’s GDP for the April-June period is the worst since records began in 1955, with unprecedented drops in services, production and construction. […]
In a move that has raised eyebrows amongst political commentators, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has announced that Kamala Harris will be his running mate for the impending US election. This is surprising for a wide variety of reasons: from her poor overall performance in the Democratic primaries, to her very public disagreements with Biden […]
As Ireland undergoes new regional lockdowns around the midlands to help tackle the spread of covid-19, the situation in Sweden could be looking somewhat more optimistic. The Swedish government raised eyebrows around the start of the pandemic when they decided not to implement the same lockdown measures as many other Western countries. They didn’t shut […]
The security law imposed by China on Hong Kong has been used to arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who has been a critic of Chinese oppression. Mr Lai’s newspaper offices were raided by police over allegations of collusion with foreign forces, and he and other employees were arrested, including two of his sons according to […]
NASA has announced that it will be examining the unofficial nicknames given by the scientific community to “cosmic objects” such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae. They say that they must do this as it has become clear that “certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful.” Even seemingly innocuous nicknames, they […]
Promises, promises. But RTE is convinced, naturally: Senior Democrats in the US have claimed that Joe Biden will be a friend to Ireland if elected US president. The Biden Campaign held a virtual rally for Irish-American voters and Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle told the event that the Brexit process had put hard won peace and […]
The Daily Mail has acquired a significant portion of the bodycam footage taken by police officers during the arrest, and subsequent death, of George Floyd. The footage shows officers approaching Floyd, his attempts to resist arrest, and his subsequent death from cardiopulmonary arrest. The leaked footage came from the bodycams of officer Thomas Lane and […]
With Irish schools set to re-open in less than a month, and concern about the recent rise in the number of Coronavirus cases in the country, some welcome good news has emerged from an Australian study which suggests that the risk of virus transmission in schools is very low – as long as counter measures […]