Following the tearing down of a statue of Edward Colston, an English philanthropist and slave trader, by rioters in Bristol, the BBC has helpfully published a list of other statues of individuals with links to the slave trade. The list is in an article, headlined “London statues with slavery links ‘should be taken down’”, which quotes […]
In the middle of Bristol, until yesterday, there was a statue of a man who bought Africans and sold them as slaves in America. You might think, having read that sentence, that the very bad people of Bristol were so enamoured of slavery that they decided to honour a slave trader with a statue, as […]
Famed author JK Rowling has been attacked – and defended – for saying that ‘people who menstruate’ are women. Responding to an article headlined “Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate” MS Rowling said: “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. […]
A video of a police officer being covered with liquid, presumably gasoline, and set on fire, with the caption “Take Notes” currently has 2.8 million views on the social media network Twitter. It has been retweeted 11,800 times and has 22,400 likes. The account which has uploaded the video goes on to say that “Guadalajara […]
Reciting a pledge, renouncing your sins, hands upturned to receive absolution? You can recognise a religious ceremony when you see one, and here it is, in Bethseda, Maryland, yesterday: We often joke, those of us on the centre right, that in many quarters progressivism has become a kind of secular religion, and perhaps now you […]
The opening paragraph of this report from America’s National Public Radio (NPR), which is the closest thing the US has to RTE, has to be seen to be believed. Emphasis added: Mass protests that have erupted over police brutality toward black people in America are raising concerns about the risk of spreading the coronavirus. But […]
Over the last week there have been multiple instances of police officers being shot at, and at least one officer has been killed, in connection with the protests and riots currently taking place in America. The protests started after the release of a video showing the death of a man, George Floyd, 46, as a […]
About a hundred babies born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine are separated from the parents who commissioned them. The parents can’t visit and the babies can’t leave. In the meantime, the children are being cared for by their surrogate mothers or the agency which recruited them. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been […]
Lord Patten, the last government of Hong Kong, has released an open letter calling on China to move back from its plans to unilaterally introduce national security legislation in Hong Kong. The legislation would give the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] wide-ranging powers to crack down on “treason, secession, sedition, and subversion! whilst also allowing the […]
A major survey has shown that 1 in 3 Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression – a huge shift upwards since the coronavirus pandemic began. The San Francisco Gate reports that data from the Census Bureau showed 24% of respondents showed “clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30% showed symptoms […]
YouTube has been accused of putting in place an algorithm which removed comments containing Chinese phrases historically used by those critical of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP]. A video of comments containing the slang being removed from YouTube was uploaded by Jennifer Zeng, a Chinese human rights activist and author, on May 13th. The video shows comments containing […]
Brazilians are rushing to congratulate Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on her democratic reelection following the leak of a letter, sent by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, asking that “necessary preventive measures” are taken to ensure that Brazilian lawmakers did not celebrate, or even acknowledge, the President’s inauguration ceremony. The document was leaked by Paulo Eduardo […]