Confession: When yours truly woke up this morning, it was not my intention to write not one, but two stories about paedophilia in the one day. It’s a messed up world, folks. But them’s the breaks: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been charged with playing a role in the “sexual exploitation and abuse” of multiple […]
A wedding in the eastern Indian state of Bihar is being described as a “super-spreader” event after the groom died and between 80 and 100 guests tested positive for Covid-19. Some 350 people attended the wedding in breach of Covid-19 regulations. The groom (30), who was said to have displayed symptoms of the virus before […]
More than 260,000 people have signed an online petition calling for a new movie called Habit to be scrapped because it ” depicts Jesus as a lesbian woman”. The petition on Change.org was started by a woman identified only as Vivian N, who says the film is “blasphemous” and “Christianophobic garbage”. “A new blasphemous Hollywood film […]
Police in Hong Kong have confirmed that nearly 200 people in the region have been arrested less than 24 hours after the new National Security Law was imposed on Hong Kong by China. The law, which aims to clamp down on the protests that have been occurring in the city over the last year, was […]
Reddit’s new policy on hate speech says that the rules won’t protect “groups who are in the majority.” Reddit has purged about 2,000 sub-reddits, essentially smaller forums on Reddit loosely themed around a particular topic or group, and adopted a new content policy they say will crack down on hate speech. The new policy says […]
A new strain of swine flu that has the potential to spread from animals to humans and lead to another pandemic has been identified by scientists in China. The virus – named G4 EA H1N1 – is carried by pigs, but it can infect humans, the researchers from Chinese universities and China’s Centre for Disease Control […]
A Catholic priest who stood with members of his flock to defend a statue of a saint in St Louis, Missouri, was shouted down and told the crowd was coming for the cathedral next. Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, endeavoured to speak to the crowd who had come to […]
A new report, based on leaked Chinese government documents, has said that the Chinese government has been systematically sterilizing women from ethnic minorities. According to the report the Chinese government has also put in place mandatory birth control and forced abortions for women from certain ethnic backgrounds. According to Dr Adrian Zenz, the author of […]
A former spokeswoman for the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion now says that her fellow environmentalists should join her in embracing nuclear power. Zion Lights is now director of Environmental Progress UK, but was formerly a leading spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK and the founder of its newspaper, The Hourglass. Her decision to campaign for nuclear energy will have […]
Cambridge University has defended a professor’s right to free speech after a petition called for her to be sacked for sending a tweet which said “White lives don’t matter.” The tweet was subsequently deleted by Twitter for breaching it’s hateful conduct policy, but the academic has said she stands over her statement and that we need to “abolish […]
All of the caveats must apply, obviously, to polls, and the biggest and most important one when it comes to President Trump is that if you believed the evidence of the polling in 2016, as yours truly did, then you’d have been shocked by the result (as yours truly, and many others, were). But still: […]
Extraordinary: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1275500569940176897 The background to this: Some weeks ago, anarchist protestors in Seattle set up what they called an “autonomous zone” – basically their own independent quasi-country, in the city. Two nights ago, protestors in Washington DC threatened to do the same. Trump was having none of it. Twitter says that Trump’s tweet constituted a […]