President Trump will announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court on Saturday, at about 9pm Irish time. Officially, nobody knows who the nominee will be, but the betting markets, and smart pundits, are almost all agreed: It will be Judge Amy Coney Barrett, presently a Judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals: […]
The good news is that several potential coronavirus vaccines are at the “widespread human trial” stage. The bad news is that in the case of at least one of them, that trial is running into some trouble: Experts have been particularly concerned about AstraZeneca’s vaccine trials, which began in April in Britain, because of the […]
A group of over 30 scientists, academics, and physicians have written to Boris Johnson asking that he reconsider the current approach to COVID-19, which the letter says “appears to be one of suppression of the virus, until such a time that a vaccine can be deployed.” This, according to the letter, is “increasingly unfeasible” and […]
Julian Assange was offered a “win-win” deal to avoid indictment and extradition to the US, according to the journalist’s barrister fighting his case in a London court.
The University of Chicago English Department has announced that it “is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies” – meaning that students who wish to study english there will also have to take a course that many say draws its inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement that includes the dismantling of the […]
A new law passed in the North-Western Nigerian state of Kaduna will mean that men convicted of rape will face castration and a life sentence in prison, while anyone molesting child under the age of 14 will face the death penalty. Women who molest children over 14 will reportedly have their fallopian tubes removed. The […]
Last week, #CancelNetflix was trending on social media for days as outrage kept building after the streaming service uploaded the movie ‘Cuties’ which was slammed for “normalising paedophilia”. The hashtag seems to have produced a massive surge in subscription cancellations for Netflix according to research company YipitData, who told Variety that cancellations in the U.S […]
On the one hand, good. There’s not much point keeping a law on the books that’s been transparently flouted by most EU countries for years: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that proposed new migration reforms would replace the so-called “Dublin Regulation”, which governs which member state handles a new arrival’s asylum […]
Despite making up over 60% of the Ethopian population, Christians living in the southern Oromia state have faced a dramatic escalation in attacks by Islamist gangs pillaging villages.
Broadly amusing, mainly because of how the American left spends so much of its time, in normal times, accusing people who oppose it of being anti-vaxxers. How times change: “With deaths from the coronavirus nearing 200,000 in the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday assailed President Trump for playing politics with a potential […]
Popular podcaster and MMA commentator Joe Rogan has offered to host a 4-hour live debate between US president Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The offer came during an interview with former UFC fighter Tim Kennedy, during which Rogan said: “I would want [to host the debate]. First of all, I’d want no one […]
The hashtag #RIPJKRowling has been trending on social media as transgender activists expressed opposition which often amounted to hatred and venom at the Harry Potter author. The author, who has come under sustained attack for expressing concern that the aggression of trans activists is diminishing women’s rights, has just published a book where a serial killer dresses as […]