A Catholic priest who stood with members of his flock to defend a statue of a saint in St Louis, Missouri, was shouted down and told the crowd was coming for the cathedral next. Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, endeavoured to speak to the crowd who had come to […]
A new report, based on leaked Chinese government documents, has said that the Chinese government has been systematically sterilizing women from ethnic minorities. According to the report the Chinese government has also put in place mandatory birth control and forced abortions for women from certain ethnic backgrounds. According to Dr Adrian Zenz, the author of […]
A former spokeswoman for the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion now says that her fellow environmentalists should join her in embracing nuclear power. Zion Lights is now director of Environmental Progress UK, but was formerly a leading spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK and the founder of its newspaper, The Hourglass. Her decision to campaign for nuclear energy will have […]
Cambridge University has defended a professor’s right to free speech after a petition called for her to be sacked for sending a tweet which said “White lives don’t matter.” The tweet was subsequently deleted by Twitter for breaching it’s hateful conduct policy, but the academic has said she stands over her statement and that we need to “abolish […]
All of the caveats must apply, obviously, to polls, and the biggest and most important one when it comes to President Trump is that if you believed the evidence of the polling in 2016, as yours truly did, then you’d have been shocked by the result (as yours truly, and many others, were). But still: […]
Extraordinary: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1275500569940176897 The background to this: Some weeks ago, anarchist protestors in Seattle set up what they called an “autonomous zone” – basically their own independent quasi-country, in the city. Two nights ago, protestors in Washington DC threatened to do the same. Trump was having none of it. Twitter says that Trump’s tweet constituted a […]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: Germany’s coronavirus R number has leapt again – from 1.79 on Saturday to 2.88 on Sunday, official figures show. The Robert Koch Institute for public health (RKI), which has been publishing the country’s COVID-19 statistics, said the new number is based on […]
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that would allow him to impose sanctions on China for its involvement in the mass incarceration of people of faith in Xinjiang. Almost a million Uighur Muslims are in what have been described as concentration camps in the region, according to the United Nations. China […]
Fallon Fox, the first openly transgender MMA fighter, took to Twitter yesterday to explain that she “enjoyed” fracturing the skull of one of the first woman to fight her, and that she loves, “smacking up TERFs in the cage…it’s bliss!” Fallon, who was previously a member of the US military, came out as transgender in […]
Disability rights activists have expressed grief and shock after a Swedish court acquitted police officers who fired 25 shots at a young man with Down’s syndrome while he played with a toy gun. Three officers were charged with negligence and misconduct in the fatal shooting of Eric Torell, 20, on 2 August 2018. All were […]
Tensions have flared between India and China after a border clash led to the death of several soldiers. The fighting is understood to have happened over Monday night. Initial reports said that at least three soldiers from the Indian military had died, with reports saying that the Chinese military had also suffered an unknown number […]
North Korea has blown up its joint liaison office with the South near the border town of Kaesong, just hours after the North made threats of military action at the Korean border. The centre, which is in North Korea, was opened in 2018 to act as an inter-Korean liaison office. The explosion was confirmed by South Korean […]