A British Conservative MP has said Covid-19 vaccines should be mandatory when rolled-out in the UK and an accompanying certificate should be issued that would allow international travel.
Japan Airlines has announced that, starting from October 1st, they will be banning all “gendered” language on flights. Phrases such as “ladies and gentlemen” will no longer be used to refer to passengers. Instead, phrases like “attention all passengers” or “everyone” will be used to address people more generally, or simply “good morning” and “good […]
Some of Britain’s best known writers and actors, including famed author Ian McEwan and actor Griff Rhys Jones have signed an open letter defending JK Rowling after the Harry Potter creator was the focus of sustained attack in social and mainstream media for her views on gender identity. Rowling has stood her ground after expressing concern that […]
The US government has officially offered a $5 million dollar (€4.2 million euro) reward for any information that leads to the capture of Communist rebel leader and drug-pusher Wilver Villegas Palomino. 38-year old Palomino, who US secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described as a “narcoterrorist”, has been accused of distributing cocaine in the US […]
The polling comes from ABC News, together with the Washington Post, and is very reputable. It’s more “eyebrow raising” than shocking in the case of Florida, but the Arizona numbers certainly justify the decision to break out the “Shock New Poll” headline: President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races […]
The Church of Saint Agata of Sicily in the Italian province of Caltanissetta has reportedly been vandalised for the second time in a month, with thieves causing serious damage to the church and scattering consecrated Eucharistic hosts on the ground. Vandals broke down the door in the middle of the night, and after breaking the […]
30 whales are said to be still alive, with focus now turning to saving as many of them possible.
Assange’s lawyers also listed at least ten times the whistleblower requested the Samaritan’s suicide hotline number between August and November 2019.
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.