49-47 to Biden, says Emerson College Polling, which is significant for two reasons. First, there’s an awful lot of crappy polling in American elections – if you want an opinion poll to show your guy winning, then you’ll usually be able to find someone who’ll produce one for you. But Emerson College isn’t a crappy […]
Massive protests have taken place in Berlin and London against the continued Coronavirus lockdown and against mandatory vaccination. Tens of thousands gathered in Berlin at the historic Brandenburg Gate, calling for the Covid-19 restrictions to end. Some carried Swedish flags, signifying approval for that country’s response to the crisis, and denied that the rally was made […]
The Australian Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, has written to the chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), Andrew Hastie, to ask that the Committee investigate “the nature and extent to which foreign actors are interfering in Australian universities, including staff and student bodies, publicly funded research agencies and competitive research […]
Chinese diplomats have responded furiously to a Czech delegation to Taiwan led by the speaker of the Czech Senate. Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, said earlier today that Miloš Vystrčil, the speaker of the Czech Senate, will be made to “pay a heavy price” for his involvement in the delegation and that the Chinese government […]
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, South African prelate and Archbishop of Durban, has taken to Twitter to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. “It’s time to state honestly what BLM really stands for – destroying the traditional family, AND what it actually does – destroying property, including religious buildings and objects!”, the cardinal wrote on Saturday. It’s […]
A multi-agency operation to find endangered and trafficked juveniles in Georgia has led to 39 missing children being rescued, and 9 ‘criminal associates’ arrested and facing charges of sex trafficking, parental kidnapping, custodial interference and registered sex offender violence. The children were aged between 3 and 17. Photos and videos of the rescue showed them […]
Hungary is to close its borders to all foreigners starting on Monday the 1st of September, the Minister heading the Hungarian cabinet has announced. Gergely Gulyás has said that exceptions will be made for humanitarian missions, foreign diplomats, important business and military operations. Additionally, Hungarian citizens returning from overseas will be required to quarantine for […]
The last number of years have seen growing rifts between transgender and feminist activists over the issues of female only spaces, women’s rights, and the idea of “gender-affirmative care”, which effectively argues that clinicians and society in general should agree with any statement a child makes about their gender identity, an approach which critics argue […]
Last week, Joe Biden spoke for 24 minutes and declared that the “President’s character is on the ballot”. Last night, President Trump got his go at making a pitch to America, and declared that the Democratic agenda would all but end America as we know it. Trump took a bit longer than 24 minutes, too: […]
An English rugby star has called on the Government to incentivise marriage, as a new report shows cohabiting couples are four times more likely to separate, and that family instability is a leading cause for negative outcomes for children. Writing in The Telegraph England player Courtney Lawes said that in his view marriage provided stability to families, […]
No more Heidi or cuckoo clocks? As headlines go ‘There should be integration courses for the Swiss’ was one surely written to catch attention, but sociologist Ganga Jey Aratnam argues that this will become the reality as Swiss people are set to become a minority in their own country. In an interview with Tages-Anzeiger, Aratnam said that Swiss […]
Tech giant Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106 million taxes to settle a dispute over taxes raised on revenues earned in the country. The charge would cover the period of Facebook’s operations in France from 2009 to 2019. The social network trailblazers also agreed to pay €8.46m in taxes on revenues earned […]