A fire has broken out in the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes. Firefighters have rushed to the scene, but the cause of the incident remains unclear. Videos and photographs from the scene show fire and smoke billowing from inside the 15-century cathedral. The fire comes just a year after the devastating destruction of […]
A new study has found that patients hospitalised with Covid-19 were much less likely to die if they were treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System […]
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis and a population crash which scientists say will require a re-organisation of societies, according to a new study. It’s forecasted that 23 countries will see their populations shrink by more than 50% including Spain, Italy and Japan – with massive negative knock-on effects for economic growth, jobs and […]
A senior editor at the New York Times has resigned from the paper, and made public a searing letter of resignation which claims that the New York Times is controlled by voices on the extreme left, and that there is no longer any space in the publication for people with centrist views. Bari Weiss was […]
At least two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary have been attacked in recent days in the U.S., while churches have also come under attack, with one being set alight while parishioners prepared for Mass. The Catholic News Agency reported that last Saturday morning, the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, was set aflame […]
Not the result they were praying for in Brussels, to put it mildly: “Poland’s incumbent President Andrzej Duda has narrowly beaten challenger Rafal Trzaskowski in Sunday’s presidential vote. The National Electoral Commission said Mr Duda had won 51.2% of the votes. It is Poland’s slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989. […]
If you are a daily reader of Gript, you’d have encountered this conclusion, about the recent surge in Coronavirus in the US, on our site two days ago: You can see that the surge in hospitalisations is more recent than the surge in cases, and that makes sense. Some people who were diagnosed three weeks […]
Some of the world’s best known writers and thinkers have signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine expressing concern about ‘cancel culture’ and a growing intolerance of opposing views. “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” they write. The letter says “censoriousness is also […]
One of the more unusual things that’s been happening in the (increasingly ignored) world of Coronavirus recently is that the massive surge in cases in the United States has not, as yet, been accompanied by a surge in deaths from the virus. This has prompted some people – in and outside of science – to […]
Gun violence has exploded in New York city after authorities disbanded a special anti-crime unit on June 15, with three times as many shootings from the same period in 2019, according to police statistics. The New York Post revealed that the disturbing figures also revealed a “shocking rise in gunfire” as the number of incidents […]
Kanye West for President? Come off it. There’s no way they’re going to elect a loudmouthed celebrity with a big twitter following and no prior political experience, is there? They can’t? Can they? Yes they Kanye. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1279575273365594112 The single biggest thing going against him, believe it or not, isn’t that he’s a pop star with […]
The Chinese embassy has released a statement saying that it wishes to express its “grave concern and strong opposition” to a statement recently published by Minister Simon Coveney. It says that the Minister’s statement made “groundless accusations” against China’s new security legislation for Hong Kong. Minister Coveney had said that he was “concerned” about the […]