The Japanese suicide rate has risen to the highest rate in at least half a decade, police data revealed this week. While suicide has long been a serious and widespread issue in Japan, numbers have skyrocketed in recent months as the covid-19 pandemic wears on. As of October of 2020, over 13,000 lives have been […]
In the week since American voters went to the polls, most things about the result have become clear, and a few things remain outstanding. Joe Biden has been declared, by the media, Democrats, and more than a few Republicans, to be the President-Elect. He has spent the last few days beginning to assemble an administration, […]
Despite laicizing McCarrick in 2019, the report is unlikely to be the final word on the question of how much and when Pope Francis knew about the crimes.
Over 17 million mink are being culled in Denmark following the discovery of a new strain of Covid-19 that is thought to pass through the animal.
To be fair, they didn’t say the first bit. But it’s hard to argue that politics didn’t influence the timing, for reasons we’ll come to shortly. But first, the news: As I type these words, stock markets are surging globally. And why wouldn’t they? A 90% effective Coronavirus vaccine means, well, the end of the […]
A stark image here, via Gavan Reilly: pic.twitter.com/QxyaTuWiLy — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 7, 2020 This is, of course, an absolutely terrible development, but most people seem incapable of understanding why. That’s largely because attitudes to Trump fall into two camps, and they are almost irreconcilable. The first camp includes almost every Irish journalist, and […]
Joe Biden has overtaken President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia today, coming ever closer to securing his route to winning the electoral college.
Last night, President Trump took to the podium at the White House to claim that the US Election was being stolen from him by voter fraud in several key states. Online, several theories have been floating around as to how this theft might be happening. It is worth, therefore, looking at the evidence for each […]
Almost five thousand people have already signed a petition asking the popular British soap, Emmerdale, to change an abortion storyline that campaigners say is “prejudiced” against people with Down Syndrome. Set up by mum Rachel Mewes, whose daughter Betsy has Down Syndrome, the petition says the soap’s storyline will “influence the masses as a perpetuation […]
Distressing scenes have been shared of a retired nurse being arrested while handcuffed as she tried to remove her 97-year-old mother from a care home ahead of another tightening of Covid-19 regulations in Britain. Ylenia Angeli, 73, who is a retired nurse, was handcuffed and detained after the nursing home called the police when she took her mother, […]
Several leftist ‘Count Every Vote’ protests in New York City and Portland, Oregan, have descended into “widespread violence” since Wednesday according to the local sheriff, with Antifa extremists reportedly burning property and smashing churches while spitting at and attacking police. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1324364035479928833 NYC: Far-left protester calls an officer a fascist and spits in his eyes. https://t.co/m79wYx7UMR […]
Protests have erupted in Thailand over the government’s recent decision to ban Pornhub, along with 190 other pornography sites. Demonstrators gathered outside the country’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society building, carrying placards that read “free Pornhub” and “reclaim Pornhub”. Others marched while wearing Pornhub merchandise, while the Twitter hashtag #SavePornhub began trending online. Puttipong […]