US Postal Service data obtained by the New York Post showed that there were more than 295,000 change-of-address requests filed by residents moving out of the city’s five boroughs from March 1 through October 31. The data included only moves to counties with 11 or more forwarding requests filed, meaning …
Read More »As governments seek to make photographing police a crime, our art puts them back in the frame & accountable for their actions
2020 has been a year of ever increasing state-sanctioned violence. In the UK the new Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, currently being rushed through parliament, will allow undercover agents to commit ‘murder, torture and rape’ in the name of queen and country. From Madrid to London and Warsaw, our work …
Read More »‘Insulting’ Prophet Mohammed cartoons should be a crime in France like ‘doubting Holocaust,’ says Iran’s Khamenei
Khamenei became the latest Muslim leader to express his outrage at Western perceptions of Islam in a war of words that erupted in the wake of the killing of French teacher Samuel Paty in Paris on October 16. The Iranian leader’s attack on Macron came amid renewed tension between France …
Read More »This new ‘hate crime’ law is even more pernicious & worrying than celebrity critics like Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese realise
The media spotlight on celebrity free speech blinds us to the threat the proposed new hate crime poses to ordinary people, and their right to equal treatment under the law. By introducing so-called ‘protected characteristics’, the Scottish government plans to allow the courts to punish alleged ‘hate crimes’ much more …
Read More »Hate crime booms in UK as race, religion, gender, Brexit & Covid-19 see famous tolerance disappear
That warm fuzzy feeling of togetherness which saw families during the coronavirus lockdown venture outside their homes to bang pots and pans, clap and cheer in support of heroic strangers doing unthinkable tasks is well and truly gone. We now hate each other more than ever. We hate people on …
Read More »2 + 2 = thought crime? Mathematical certainty hangs in the balance as Orwell’s worst fears come to life
This month, Americans got another bitter taste of ‘progressive’ insanity from one of the most unexpected of places. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which prides itself as “the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students, and enthusiasts,” came out and declared that “mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries …
Read More »With misogyny now a hate crime, we’re criminalising what people think. We’ll soon have thought police exploring our private lives
Welcome to an Orwellian world where what you think about women, gays or Muslims may now be criminalised under hate crime legislation proposed by the Law Commission. Since its invention in the United States in the 1980s, the number of different hate crimes have been growing and growing. In Britain, …
Read More »Snowflakes at Spotify want Joe Rogan canceled for ‘transphobia’. His real crime is success as a free thinker
A recent report from Vice gave an insight into the struggles of employees at Spotify since Rogan’s podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’, began its reportedly $100 million licensing deal with the company. Sources told the outlet there have been 10 internal meetings at Spotify already, with numerous employees complaining Rogan’s …
Read More »Americans respond to riots, crime fears by buying more guns as Smith & Wesson reports ‘UNPARALLELED’ demand
Gun sales in the company’s first fiscal quarter, ended July 31, jumped 141 percent from a year earlier to a record $230 million, Smith & Wesson said late Thursday. The firm also set an all-time quarterly high for guns shipped out, more than doubling to 584,000 units, as production was …
Read More »Poverty — a crime, if we are talking about the state
There are two news: good and so-so. First — the budget of Russia is not conducive to the fight against poverty. The second — “the Nobel prize” for Economics this year was awarded for contributions to studies of poverty. That is, economic science knows what to do, so that poverty …
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