If you are a daily reader of Gript, you’d have encountered this conclusion, about the recent surge in Coronavirus in the US, on our site two days ago: You can see that the surge in hospitalisations is more recent than the surge in cases, and that makes sense. Some people who were diagnosed three weeks […]
Some of the world’s best known writers and thinkers have signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine expressing concern about ‘cancel culture’ and a growing intolerance of opposing views. “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” they write. The letter says “censoriousness is also […]
One of the more unusual things that’s been happening in the (increasingly ignored) world of Coronavirus recently is that the massive surge in cases in the United States has not, as yet, been accompanied by a surge in deaths from the virus. This has prompted some people – in and outside of science – to […]
Gun violence has exploded in New York city after authorities disbanded a special anti-crime unit on June 15, with three times as many shootings from the same period in 2019, according to police statistics. The New York Post revealed that the disturbing figures also revealed a “shocking rise in gunfire” as the number of incidents […]
Kanye West for President? Come off it. There’s no way they’re going to elect a loudmouthed celebrity with a big twitter following and no prior political experience, is there? They can’t? Can they? Yes they Kanye. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1279575273365594112 The single biggest thing going against him, believe it or not, isn’t that he’s a pop star with […]
The Chinese embassy has released a statement saying that it wishes to express its “grave concern and strong opposition” to a statement recently published by Minister Simon Coveney. It says that the Minister’s statement made “groundless accusations” against China’s new security legislation for Hong Kong. Minister Coveney had said that he was “concerned” about the […]
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 […]