The French protest movement known as the Yellow Vests or Gillet Jaune are now demonstrating for a year – with 52 weeks of protest racked up this weekend. https://twitter.com/ohboywhatashot/status/1193662506109153281 The French Yellow Vest protesters originally took to the streets to oppose rising fuel costs and the high costs of living took to the streets in […]
The second parliamentary elections in Spain this year have seen the biggest surge in votes for the new political party Vox, which is now the country’s third largest party. Spain has been stuck in a political deadlock since April with no clear majority to govern. With all votes now counted, Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists have won the biggest share […]
A federal judge this week voided the Trump administration’s “conscience rule,” which had made it easier for health care workers to avoid helping with abortion or other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds. “Wherever the outermost line where persuasion gives way to coercion lies, the threat to pull all HHS funding here crosses it,” […]
This “hot mic” video of ABC news Anchor Amy Robach is extraordinary, and it speaks for itself. Very little comment needed. Watch the whole thing: BREAKING: @abcnews anchor @arobach caught on 'hot mic' in August disgustedly exposing networks decision to strategically spike bombshell investigation into Jefferey Esptein over THREE YEARS AGO. Says what she had […]
For those of you who have been living on Pluto for the past decade and are not aware, “Dancing with the Stars” is an internationally successful popular entertainment programme where celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, and compete with each other to be the best dancer over a number of weeks. Three professional judges […]
There’s an odd assumption that goes around amongst those who support the American President (and many who oppose him), and his re-election campaign, which is basically that it doesn’t matter what he does, or what he tweets, or what he says, he’ll likely win again because the polls are wrong, like they were in 2016*. […]
Strong words this morning from the incoming President of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen: Today on #EqualPayDay, women earn on average 16% less than men. Written in the European Treaties 60 years ago, equal pay for equal work is still not a reality. That's why I will table measures to introduce binding paytransparency […]
It’s remarkable, isn’t it, as a very smart tweeter observed in response to this news, that just a few years ago the great and the good were applauding the power of twitter to facilitate political change on a scale previously unheard of. The Arab spring? Powered almost completely by social media. Barack Obama? The first […]
A gold medalist sprinter has described the inclusion of athletes born male in women’s sports, as unfair, adding that we’re “living in ridiculous times.” Top British sprinter James Ellington made his comment s on Twitter , after transgender cyclist, Rachel McKinnon, who was born male, won gold for a second time at the Masters Track […]
A wheelchair-bound four-year-old girl is said to be traumatised after being screamed at by a man on her way to school and told she “shouldn’t have been born.”
Apparently, when the rats drive their little cars, they experience a reduction in stress. We’ll see how long that lasts when one of them is stuck behind some fella in a white van doing 60kph on the motorway. Anyway: The study tasked adult rats with learning how to pilot a pint-sized vehicle made out of […]
Under a deal struck between Russia and Turkey in Sochi yesterday, Russian border police and Syrian soldiers will now patrol a safe-zone extending along the entire northeastern border of Syria, creating a 30km-deep buffer zone into the country’s territory.